Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Writin (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading Christmas Carol the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but along with Dickens other Christmas writings it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit and about the season as a time for celebration charity and memory. Review [Coralie Bickford-Smiths] recent work for Penguin Classics is...nothing short of glorious ―Anna Cole Co. About the Author Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His many books includeOliver Twist Great Expectations andA Christmas Carol.