Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
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ISBN : 9781522738695
A Charles Dickens short story that was actually the inspiration for "A Christmas Carol." In this story, a gravedigger that hates Christmas gets kidnapped by goblins while digging a grave and then they help him get into the Christmas spirit. The beginning of this version has a biography of the author.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Christmas stories
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Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0762450916
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the time-honored tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, whose encounters with the ghosts of Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come lead him to examine his bitter existence. Haunting steampunk illustrations by acclaimed artist Zdenko Basic accompany the original story, transforming this Christmas classic like never before. Images of steam-powered machinery, a chilling industrial London, and ornate mechanical gears come together as Scrooge travels through his life on Christmas Eve night. Additionally, Charles Dickens' celebrated short stores, "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" and "A Christmas Tree" are included and paired with equally enchanting steampunk illustrations. Those of us who cherish each holiday with Dickens in our hearts -- the man who has linked the Christmas spirit with love, forgiveness, and charity -- will treasure this rare collector's edition for this Christmas and many to come.
Author : Kenneth L. Chumbley
Publisher : Adelaide Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
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ISBN : 9781950437429
Charles Dickens wrote four Christmas ghost stories, of which the first was "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (ch. 29 in The Pickwick Papers). A Christmas Carol, the second, largely followed its outline. In Goblins, a surly, malicious sexton (gravedigger) is kidnapped by goblins on Christmas Eve. They take him to their underground cavern and through various scenes shown him, redeem him from his evil ways.Utilizing character names from other Dickens' stories, Kenneth Chumbley and Tonya Clarkson McCain used the outline of the original Goblins to create a 10,000 word novella, The Goblins and a Gravedigger. The drama involves child abuse (a classic Dickens' theme) and is a darker story than Carol. In writing fantasy, any mythical character can be used (elves, dwarfs, goblins, etc.), but the story must be real and human. This is exactly what authors tried to do in their adaptation.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393051582
The celebrated annotator of "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has now prepared a sumptuous new edition of the Dickens classic.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8726586770
After beating up a little boy on Christmas Eve – as you do – Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and mean-spirited gravedigger, goes to dig a grave in the churchyard. His work is interrupted when goblins come by to show him what a nasty and spiteful fellow he is. The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton is a quick and festive read which appeared in Charles Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick Papers, Britain’s first publishing phenomenon. It’s a haunting and imaginative short story and readers familiar with Dickens will find many parallels to A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English author, social critic, and philanthropist. Much of his writing first appeared in small instalments in magazines and was widely popular. Among his most famous novels are Oliver Twist (1839), David Copperfield (1850), and Great Expectations (1861).
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9180943748
»The Story of the Goblin who Stole a Sexton« is a short story by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1836. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.
Author : Diana Secker Tesdell
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This collection is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this anthology.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
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ISBN :
Perhaps best described as Dickens's ``other'' Christmas story, this is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the gifts and toys that decorate the traditional tree. There is a range of appeal in the story itself, from snug memories of beloved toys to the passing along of eerie stories surrounding various childhood haunts. Ingpen renders the story quite accessible by focusing on objects of the period mentioned in the text, and by filtering the memory aspects of the telling through soft sweeps of paint. All ages.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1873
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