<p><strong>With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.</strong></p>
<p>In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore.</p>
<p><em>A Christmas Carol</em>, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving.</p>
<p>The other stories, <em>The Chimes</em>, <em>The Cricket on the Hearth</em>, <em>The Battle of Life</em> and <em>The Haunted Man</em>, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration.</p>
Paperback / softback | 416 pages | Published October 1995
