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A review by dorynickel
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Tales by George P. Webster, Katharine N. Harrington, L.M. Montgomery, Helen Standish Perkins, Charles Dickens, Susie Montgomery Best, Washington Irving, Clement C. Moore, Egbert L. Bangs, Barry McLoughlin, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Wilbur Nesbit, Gladys Hyatt Sinclair
1.0
I am usually a paperback person, but I love the Barnes and Noble leather-bound editions. They're beautiful with high quality paper and binding. While that was true of this book, the proofreading must have been nonexistent: I caught at least 10 glaring mistyped errors. For a book that's supposed to be a special edition, that was very disappointing to me.
Also, I was really disappointed in the selected stories and poems themselves. I already loved A Christmas Carol, and I very much enjoyed The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, but none of the other stories stood out at all (although I can see why Old Christmas and A Christmas Dream were included). Same issue with the poems; 5 of the 9 were wholly unremarkable and just didn't seem worthy of inclusion. It feels like they realized that A Christmas Carol wasn't long enough for its own book so they just grabbed the first public domain Christmas stories/poems they found and just threw them in there.
Also, I was really disappointed in the selected stories and poems themselves. I already loved A Christmas Carol, and I very much enjoyed The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, but none of the other stories stood out at all (although I can see why Old Christmas and A Christmas Dream were included). Same issue with the poems; 5 of the 9 were wholly unremarkable and just didn't seem worthy of inclusion. It feels like they realized that A Christmas Carol wasn't long enough for its own book so they just grabbed the first public domain Christmas stories/poems they found and just threw them in there.