Christmas Stories Annotated


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"Christmas Stories"" is a collection of Christmas themed short stories by Charles Dickens written between 1850 and 1853. This magnificent tales came 10 years after Dickens had written one of the most famous Christmas stories of all time, ""A Christmas Carol.""This edition contains six stories in all, being: ""A Christmas Tree"" (1850); ""What Christmas is as we Grow Older"" (1851); ""The Poor Relation's Story"" (1852); ""The Child's Story"" (1852); ""The Schoolboy's Story"" (1853); and, ""Nobody's Story"" (1853)."




Some Christmas Stories (Annotated)


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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. ContentsA Christmas tree -- What Christmas is as we grow older -- The poor relation's story -- The child's story -- The schoolboy's story -- Nobody's story.




Christmas Every Day and Other Stories


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Christmas and other stories told for children from the works of W.D. Howells




Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Annotated


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This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome.




Ghosts of Christmas Past


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A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.







Christmas Stories


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A Christmas Carol. (Annotated)


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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period.To Christmas Carol. by Charles Dickens.in its entirety A Christmas Carol, a short novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1843. The story, suddenly conceived and written in a few weeks, is one of the most outstanding Christmas stories in modern literature.Through a series of spectral visions, greed Ebenezer Scrooge can review his life and change his outcome. The ghost of the Christmas past reveals vignettes from Scrooge's early life as a schoolboy, an apprentice, and a young man in love. The ghost of the Christmas present reveals to Scrooge that joy has little to do with wealth.




A Christmas Carol


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A gorgeous hardcover edition of the timeless holiday classic, featuring stunning full-color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, with a gilt-stamped cloth cover, acid-free paper, sewn bindings, and a silk ribbon marker. No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens's dramatic and heartwarming story of the transformation of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through the efforts of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Set on a cold Christmas Eve in Victorian London, and featuring Scrooge's long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit; Bob’s kindhearted son, Tiny Tim; and a host of colorful characters, A Christmas Carol was an instant hit and has been beloved ever since by generations of readers of all ages.




Annotated Christmas Carol


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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.