Dimensions
125 x 195 x 50mm
Stories which evoke the moral lessons of Dickens's favourite season.
Dickens's 'Christmas Stories' were written between 1850 and 1867 and appeared annually in the Christmas Numbers of his weekly journals 'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'. Many are sketches and essays full of autobiographical interest as he recalls childhood stories and scenes, excursions in Europe, a haunted house, and the den of a misanthropic hermit.
All of the stories which Dickens wrote in collaboration with Wilkie Collins are included in full in this edition - tales of heroism in shipwrecks, in desert island ambushes and in Alpine snows - thus presenting these adventure tales in complete form for the first time. Dickens's characteristic humour is here in the stories told by Mrs Lirriper the landlady, Christopher the waiter and Doctor Marigold the cheap jack. And here are two of Dickens's best ghost stories, 'To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt' and 'The Signal Man'. This is the first ever annotated edition of these 'Christmas Stories'.
This is the only edition available, with original illustrations, introduction, notes and chronology of Dickens's life and times.
