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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
5.0
From Dickens's original preface:
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C.D.
December 1843
A Christmas Carol haunts my house pleasantly every Christmastime, and I never tire of it. The other Christmas writings in this edition are ok, but I don't make a concerted effort every year to read these. Everyone knows the Christmas Carol story, and so it's not that I need to refresh my memory every year of the story of Scrooge and Cratchit and Tiny Tim. It is more a matter of refreshing my soul with this story of hope, empathy, redemption, and humanity.
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C.D.
December 1843
A Christmas Carol haunts my house pleasantly every Christmastime, and I never tire of it. The other Christmas writings in this edition are ok, but I don't make a concerted effort every year to read these. Everyone knows the Christmas Carol story, and so it's not that I need to refresh my memory every year of the story of Scrooge and Cratchit and Tiny Tim. It is more a matter of refreshing my soul with this story of hope, empathy, redemption, and humanity.