The Annotated Christmas Carol [Paperback] - A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens, John Leech (Illustrations)

[New York] Avon Books, (U.S.A.) / Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.

1977

185 páginas

6h 10m

ISBN-10: 0380017229

The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghosts. First published on 17th December 1843, it had, by Christmas Eve of that year. [...] An allegorical novella describing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. The first of the Christmas books (Dickens released one a year from 1843–1847) it became an instant hit.

[...] A Facsimile Text of the 1843 First Edition — 'The Annotated Christmas Carol' is the first extensive critical study of this great holiday fable: 'The Annotated Christmas Carol': by Charles Dickens ; Illustrated by John Leech ; With an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography by Michael Patrick Hearn: a reprinting of the 1843 first Dickens Edition, complete with the original illustrations, is supplemented by over eighty related sketches and annotations on and analyses of the text and historical notes on the writing of "The Christmas Carol"."
[...] Introduction and notes by Michael Patrick Hearn. The book contains an accurate reprinting of the text of the 1843 first edition, complete with the original hand-colored engravings and textual woodcuts by John Leech. Supplementing these are over eighty seasonal and related sketches by other artists; George Cruikshank, Robert Seymour and H.K. Browne. Michael Hearn has provided the reader with exhaustive annotations in which he explains the various literary, autobiographical, historical, and other concerns suggested by the text. The bibliography includes a list of notable editions of 'A Christmas Carol '.'