Cuentos de Navidad = A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788439282105 (8439282109)
Publish date: May 28th 1999
Publisher: Everest Publishing
Pages no: 288
Edition language: Spanish
Series: Christmas Books (#1)
by Charles Dickens What can anyone say about a Dickens Classic? This story has stood the test of time for good reason. Some of Dickens' stories can be overly wordy and full of too many characters and get confusing, but this one is straight forward and tells the story in a clear, linear fashion l...
TITLE: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings AUTHOR: Charles Dickens ISBN-13: 9780141195858 EDITION: Penguin Classics Clothbound Series ________________________ DESCRIPTION: "After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convul...
Christmas writings seem to often be drenched in nostalgia - even T.S. Eliot succumbed to it with The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. Dylan Thomas is another example. Dickens is no exception, with additional syrupy sentimentalism and overt Christian evangelism mixed with supernatural elements. Other ...
So this contains a lot of Dickens’ not-so-well-known shorter works, published in the Christmas numbers of his publications, All The Year Round (which he amusingly refers to in “Somebody’s Luggage”) and Household Words. The first four are kind of weird (see individual notes below). Just when the stor...
The Christmas Books, while not always being set during the festive season, each exemplify some aspect of the spirit of charity and "goodwill to all men" that Dickens felt so important in the celebration of Christ's birth, and which he did so much to forge into what is now seen as "a traditional Chri...
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