A Christmas Carol (Illustrated in Color by Arthur Rackham)
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Its impressive eloquence, its unfeigned lightness of heart, its playful and sparkling humour, its gentle spirit of humanity all put the reader in good humour with ourselves, with each other, with the season and with the author. -- The Illustrated London News A Christmas Carol was a national benefit and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness. - Thackeray This beautiful hardback contains Arthur Rackhams imaginative playful illustrations (12 color, 22 black and white). Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks, at the end of 1843, during a particularly intense time of creativity. He was suffering financial difficulties and was determined to have the manuscript ready for publication for the Christmas market. This book contains a clear copy of Dickens one and only handwritten manuscript, with his revisions and corrections evident on every page. The revisions show how Dickens made the verbs become more active and reduced the number of words, thereby achieving greater immediacy and vividness. The manuscript was published on 19th December, 1843, and sold out on Christmas Eve, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser, hates Christmas and everything it stands for, but visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future terrify him, thawing his frozen heart, and opening a world of possibilities. A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843, has captured the public imagination, and is now itself part of the Christmas tradition, warming the heart like mince pies and mulled wine on a winter evening. This beautiful hardback brings together twomasters of their fields: Charles Dickens, a grandmaster of Victorian literatureand a household name from his time until ours, and Arthur Rackham, one of thegreatest book illustrators of all time. Contains Dickens unabridgedtext, and Rackhams imaginative playful illustrations (12 color, 22 black andwhite). Char
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