A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

This edition includes all the original illustrations for "A Christmas Carol" and reprints the story alongside Dickens' four other Christmas Books: "The Chimes", "The Cricket on the Hearth", "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man". All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'. A paperback edition is also available.