Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" continues to captivate generation after generation. Carefully adapted and elegantly illustrated, this new edition will certainly become a classic in its own right. Full color.

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-Dickens' unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh.- London Times

Great Expectations is one of Dickens's best-loved novels and, say some critics, his greatest. Covering the story of one man's life--with many autobiographical elements--it tackles big question of identity while mustering a cast of unforgettable characters, chief amongst them Miss Havisham and Joe Gargery.

Few readers need introduction to Charles Dickens's great Christmas classic of Ebenezer Scrooge, his dastardly treatment of his employees and family, and his "ba-humbug" attitude towards Christmas--all changed by a nightmarish sleep of visions of past, present, and future.

Although numerous other editions of this book are in print, few are as lovely as the Green Integer edition, edited from the original 1843 edition and corrected by Douglas Messerli. The book will be available for Christmas 2001.

The warm nostalgic spirit of the holidays shines in this deluxe holiday gift edition.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a perennial family classic populated by such unforgettable characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Three Spirits of Christmas -- beginning with a "Bah Humbug " and culminating in an ultimate discovery of grace and good cheer.

And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One

The warm nostalgic spirit of the holidays shines in this deluxe holiday gift edition.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a perennial family classic populated by such unforgettable characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Three Spirits of Christmas -- beginning with a "Bah Humbug " and culminating in an ultimate discovery of grace and good cheer.

And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One

This is the first edition to make full use of discarded and canceled passages, as well as Dickens's surviving working notes and proofs. The new material reveals the strain imposed on Dickens by the unexpected demands of weekly serialization. This is most obvious as he approaches the death of Little Nell, in whose fate both he and his readers became emotionally involved.

Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.
Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family....