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No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than the master himself, Charles Dickens. Collected here in one volume are his five famous Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Read and reread these heartwarming classics to yourself or to a loved one every holiday season.… (mere)
andejons: It's almost like Lagerlöf set out to write a follow-up to Dicken's five Christmas stories:
Set at Christmas or New Years Eve: check.
Social commentary: check.
Supernatural mechanisms: check.
Reformed characters: check.
Her book is a bit more scary and less cheerful, though.… (mere)
Anonym bruger: The Greatest Gift is the book that was turned into It's a Wonderful Life, probably the second best Christmas story after A Christmas Carol!
Besides A Christmas Carol, the other stories in this collection are good to read during Christmas, but don't expect anything better. Most of these seemed like Dickens wrote for the money rather than actually wanting to write the story. Never read his other short stories, but I'm aware his novels aren't as fantastical as these stories. Maybe he was writing out of his element here. IMO, Dickens is a better novelist than writing short stories and novellas.
This edition contains A Christmas Carol, the Chimes, the Cricket on the Hearth, Battle of Life, and the Hunted Man. I still liked this book even though I really only liked 2 of the 5 stories. It's well put together and well organized. It says it's illustrated, but only a few for the first two stories and the others don't have any.
Each story is about 100 pages long, so you can read each one in a day I would think. ( )
Dickens stories are always welcome. Includes: A Christmas Carol; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Chimes; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain; The Battle of Life.
A Christmas Carol is a perennial favourite. The Chimes has its moments, but the rest of what I read is rather dull. Unfinished and now listed on bookmooch ( )
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth. Beautifully written.A delight to spend time with a gentler version of English. The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. Darker stories requiring the readers greater attention ( )
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The narrow space within which it was necessary to confine these Christmas Stories when they were originally published, rendered their construction a matter of some difficulty, and almost necessitated what is peculiar in their machinery. (Author's Preface)
Marley was dead, to begin with. (A Christmas Carol)
There are not many people - and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again - there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. (The Chimes)
The kettle began it! (The Cricket on the Hearth)
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. (The Battle of Life)
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Deepened in its gravity by the firelight, and gazing from the darkness of the paneled wall like life, the sedate face in the portrait, with the beard and ruff, looked down at them from under its verdant wreath of holly, as they looked up at it; and, clear and plain below, as if a voice had uttered them, were the words Lord! Keep my Memory Green! (The Haunted Man)
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Includes the five Christmas novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), The Haunted Man (1848)
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No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than the master himself, Charles Dickens. Collected here in one volume are his five famous Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Read and reread these heartwarming classics to yourself or to a loved one every holiday season.
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This edition contains A Christmas Carol, the Chimes, the Cricket on the Hearth, Battle of Life, and the Hunted Man. I still liked this book even though I really only liked 2 of the 5 stories. It's well put together and well organized. It says it's illustrated, but only a few for the first two stories and the others don't have any.
Each story is about 100 pages long, so you can read each one in a day I would think. (