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A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth

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A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. From Scrooge’s “Bah!” and “Humbug!” to Tiny Tim’s “God bless us every one!” A Christmas Carol shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, and the value of the holidays. But beneath its sentimental surface, A Christmas Carol offers another of Dickens’s sharply critical portraits of a brutal society, and an inspiring celebration of the possibility of spiritual, psychological, and social change. This new volume collects Dickens’s three most renowned “Christmas Books,” including The Chimes, a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth, whose eponymous creature remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness. Katharine Kroeber Wiley, the daughter of a scholar and a sculptor, has a degree in English Literature from Occidental College. Her work has appeared in Boundary Two and the recent book, Lore of the Dolphin. She is currently working on a book on Victorian Christmas writings.
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a famous English novelist, considered one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian era. His style was characterized by harsh criticism of social conditions, as well as a great ability to narrate and detailed depictions of events and characters, and he is the founder of the doctrine of critical realism. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in 1812 AD to an extravagant father who fell into debt and was thrown into prison, and the condition of his family worsened after him. Which prompted the young Dickens to work from an early age as a wage worker sometimes and an employee in the offices of lawyers at other times, and then worked as a journalistic informant writing short excerpts for newspapers and magazines about current personalities and events, as well as working as a political debater in all parts of England. . In his childhood, Dickens was influenced by the writings of the pioneers of English novels. Such as "Henry Fielding", "Samuel Richardson" and "Daniel Defoe", so he learned from them the techniques of drawing the fictional character, and the ability to tighten the plot, as he read many other literary classics such as "The Thousand and One Nights" and these "manufactures", and the texts of these texts. Literary and intellectual imagination of the writer and his creativity, but his journalistic work increased - at the same time - his realism, and this combination enabled him to bring out to us a new type of literary narrative known as critical realism; Where he was accurate in describing reality, adept at portraying the imagination that transcends it and shows its impotence and the contradictions inherent in it. Thanks to these exceptional abilities, Dickens succeeded and made his way to fame since his childhood, which was evident in his first work, “Buckick’s Notes,” which he wrote at the age of twenty-four; This novel achieved great success among the general public and critics alike, and then followed his brilliant works after that, such as: "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield". This novelistic and literary genius made "Karl Marx" describe him as the English writer most capable of revealing the class inequality in his society; Where Dickens' novels aptly express the sharp social contradictions that existed in Victorian society, especially the struggle of the individual with the tyrannical and corrupt social and moral order. This great writer died in 1870 AD.
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