Christmas Books (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853262684 ISBN 13: 9781853262685

Verlag: WORDSWORTH ED, 1995

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Christmas books editado por Wordsworth Editions

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One of the most glorious achievements of publishing in our time --Daily Telegraph

It will never be more possible for a more complete and perfect edition to be put on the market --Arthur Waugh, Past President, Dickens Fellowship

It will never be more possible for a more complete and perfect edition to be put on the market --Arthur Waugh, Past President, Dickens Fellowship

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With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving. The other stories, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WORDSWORTH ED
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1853262684
• ISBN 13: 9781853262685
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 383
• Zeichner: Landseer Edward, Maclise Daniel, Stanfield Clarkson, Stone Frank, Doyle Richard, Leech John, Tenniel John