A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)

Published on 6 October 1994 by Everyman (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS' series.

Hardback | 160 pages, 1
215 x 161 x 16 | 354g

The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost, was an immediate success and has remainded so ever since. It is a book to read on Christmas Eve beside a blazing fire - and the best introduction to Dickens for young readers not quite ready for his longer novels. Arthur Rackham, master of the fantastic, illustrated the story in 1915.