This Bishopston Classics Edition of Charles Dickens's much-loved Christmas story is set in 12 point Book Antiqua font. The text has been fully revised and formatted for optimum reading pleasure. 'A Christmas Carol' remains one of the most popular short stories ever written. It has never been out of print.

The year is 1775, and social ills plague both France and England. Jerry Cruncher, an odd-job man who works for Tellson's Bank, stops the Dover mail-coach with an urgent message for Jarvis Lorry. The message instructs Lorry to wait at Dover for a young woman, and Lorry responds with the cryptic words, "Recalled to Life." At Dover, Lorry is met by Lucie Manette, a young orphan whose father, a once-eminent doctor whom she supposed dead, has been discovered in France. Lorry escorts Lucie to Paris, where they meet Defarge, a former servant of Doctor Manette, who has kept Manette safe in a garret....

De beaux contes, sous forme de l'histoire de: L'histoire du parent pauvre - L'histoire de l'enfant - L'histoire de quelqu'un ou La legende des deux rivieres - L'histoire de la vieille marie bonne d'enfant - L'histoire de l'hote - L'histoire du grand-pere - L'histoire de la femme de journee - L'histoire de l'ecolier sourd - Histoire de l'invite - L'histoire de la mere - Le retour de l'emigrant ou Noel apres quinze ans d'absence

"Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" from Charles Dickens. English writer and social critic (1812-1870).

La vie de David Copperfield est sans histoire jusqu'au jour ou sa mere se remarie. Maltraite par son beau-pere, envoye en pension, David commence une lente descente aux enfers. Travaillant a Londres pour survivre, il n'a plus qu'une idee en tete: s'enfuir et retrouver le bonheur perdu... Mais il ne peux compter que sur lui et la providence pour s'en sortir..."

Ah It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp, and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon...

I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now.

I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the Register, Willum Marigold come into the world before Registers come up much, -and went out of it too. They wouldn't have been greatly in his line neither, if...

About Dickens: Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz," was the fore- most English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. Yet he has also received criticism from writers such as George Henry...

I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.