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Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens

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| Audio Cassette | 9789999975209

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Book Description

"A Christmas Carol" is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories. First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob MarleyContinue

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A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

When a classic comic, Jonathan Winters, meets a Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol, we get a golden oldie that really glitters. And we get Winters at his best, seeming to channel all the voices of Dickens' beloved characters. Available as an audio ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose

The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose Charles Dickens, Michael Patrick Hearn, and illus. John Leech W.W. Norton Hardcover 288 pages November 2003 The perfect gift for traditionalists, with a great helping of booklore, trivia and a ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

13 Reviews

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Few days ago I was looking for something easy to read in English. Accidentally I saw this tiny book and I thought: “Why not? It shouldn’t be too hard, I already know the story, like everyone else does.“ It has been easy, actually, but there was more behind the ease, there was much more.. I found it. ... (continue)

Few days ago I was looking for something easy to read in English. Accidentally I saw this tiny book and I thought: “Why not? It shouldn’t be too hard, I already know the story, like everyone else does.“ It has been easy, actually, but there was more behind the ease, there was much more.. I found it.. and I loved it!

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Genji said on Jan 8, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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What is Christmas time? Here you will find an answer!!

What shoud I say about this little jewel? Everybody knows Scrooge story because it touches our hearts. I read it once a year, obviously at Christmas time, and every time it shows me what REALLY Christmas is, despite of gifts, dinners with friends and parents!! Season greeting everyone!!

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Ologib said on Dec 15, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Scrooge,a mean old man whose only aim in life is gaining money,on Chirstmas eve has a terrifying visitor.Marley,his dead business partner who is doomed to wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins.Furthermore,Marley comes with a warning:Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits that he ought ... (continue)

Scrooge,a mean old man whose only aim in life is gaining money,on Chirstmas eve has a terrifying visitor.Marley,his dead business partner who is doomed to wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins.Furthermore,Marley comes with a warning:Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits that he ought to follow in order to save himself from the same destiny as Marley's.Next, the spirit of the Christmas Past,Present and future come and visit Scrooge and he changes his nature and learns the real sense of Christmas.

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Pinky1976 S said on Feb 5, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

One of those "you must have read it" books. It's full of fantasy and magic.a Masterpiece of the 19th century.

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Maddalena Signorino said on Apr 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Great read

I always enjoy this story. The great thing, I think, is that it isn't, or doesn't necessarily need to be, about Christmas. It's really about kindness and generosity, and how someone without those characteristics can lead a very lonely and wretched life. It does have the normal sprinkling of Dicke ... (continue)

I always enjoy this story. The great thing, I think, is that it isn't, or doesn't necessarily need to be, about Christmas. It's really about kindness and generosity, and how someone without those characteristics can lead a very lonely and wretched life. It does have the normal sprinkling of Dickensian social satire, of course, but what would a Dickens book be without that. Great read at Christmastime, or any time for that matter.

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Arkholt said on Dec 17, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Dickens fed on my childhood's dreams. His novels, the feelings that I felt, are still inside of me.
I can only love him.

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Chiara Bettelli said on Jan 10, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback