A Christmas Carol and Other Stories

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843 A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who comes to know the meaning of kindness charity and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas.<br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: <i>The Chimes</i>in which a man persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells and <i>The Haunted Man</i> Dickens's last Christmas tale which features one of his great comic families the Tetterbys.