Christmas stories : A Christmas carol; The Chimes; The cricket on the Hearth
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Heirloom Library. No Date . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. William Littlewood. No dj, bright illustrated cloth, 8 colour plates + b/w ills by WILLIAM LITTLEWOOD, some internal and foredge foxing, a few page corners slightly bumped, vg. 8vo, 288pp.
Synopsis
The first edition of Dicken’s classic work A Christmas Carol, was published in 1843. It was a runaway success, and Dickens went on to write dozens of follow up Christmas tales over the next 25 years. Many of these stories are bundled in collections, titled Christmas Stories or Christmas Books. The first four Christmas books published after the success of A Christmas Carol were: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845), T he Battle of Life: A Love Story (1846), The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time (1848). After the success of these stand-alone books, Dickens began to write and edit special Christmas-themed issues of Household Words, a twopenny journal he launched in 1850. He collaborated with well-known authors, as well as wrote his own stories. You can find multiple bound editions of these early stories from Household Words , such as "What Christmas Is" (1851), "The Poor Relation's Story "(1852), "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853), "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854), "The Holly-Tree Inn" (1855), "A House to Let" (1858), "The Haunted House" (1859), "A Message from the Sea" (1860), and "Somebody's Luggage" (1862).
Reviews
On Dec 14 2011, Patrick1952 said:
The first time I read [The Chimes], my Father was still alive and I remembered he enjoyed reading it too. Dad liked the character 'Trotty Veck', and who wouldn't? 'Trotty' was the typical Dicksonian 'decent poor'. I had bought a centennial edition of Charles Dickens complete works when I was 20. Most people don't realize Dickens wrote other fine Christmas stories besides his famous [A Christmas Carol]. The characters which seemed, 40 years ago a little fantastic in their personalities, don't seem so today when I am approaching 60 years of age. The morals that I found uplifting in the pages then are as much or more so today. This volume also includes [A Christmas Carol] and [A Cricket on the Hearth].
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- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books
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- 07F14
- Title
- Christmas stories : A Christmas carol; The Chimes; The cricket on the Hearth
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Illustrator
- William Littlewood
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No Date
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heirloom Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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