A Christmas Carol

<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>A Christmas Carol </i>by Charles Dickens<br></b><br><b>Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding<br></b><br>Charles Dickens's tale of Ebenezer Scrooge who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had along with Dickens's other Christmas writings a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration charity and memory.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.</p>