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A Christmas carol

Charles Dickens, Richard Kelly (Editor)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future
Print Book, English, 2003
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont., 2003
Christmas stories
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781551114767, 1551114763
51274488
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charles Dickens : a brief chronology
A note on the text
A Christmas Carol
Appendix A: Reflections on Christmas
From The Sketch Book / Washington Irving
'A Christmas dinner' / Charles Dickens
From the Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / Charles Dickens
From The Book of Christmas / Thomas K. Hervey
The first Christmas card / John Calcott Horsley, Sir Henry Cole
'A Christmas tree' / Charles Dickens
'What Christmast is, as we grow older' / Charles Dickens
Appendix B : child labor, education, and the workhouse
Appendix C : from letters of Charles Dickens
Appendix D : contemporary reviews of A Christmas Carol
Appendix E : Notable film, television, and radio adaptations of A Christmas Carol
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