Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol;With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

Beschreibung

Charles Dickens' classic festive tale takes place on a cold, lonely Christmas Eve. As night falls heavily on Victorian London, three mysterious ghosts haunt bitter old Ebenezer Scrooge. First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens' well-known allegorical novella. Journey through Christmasses past, present, and future as Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of the season and discover whether the miserable old man is capable of changing for the better. This remarkable story has never been out of print and has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen. A classic of English literature and a must-read for fans of a good ghost tale. This edition has been republished with an introductory chapter on the work of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton.

Autor

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 143g
• ISBN-13: 9781528717076
• ISBN-10: 1528717074
• Artikelnr.: 59445980