As Hearn notes, “Should all of Charles Dickens’ marvelous creations from The Pickwick Papers to The Mystery of Edwin Drood be suddenly threatened with extinction, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge would surely survive.” for it has become a part of Christmas folklore. Hearn’s illuminating introduction tells “the story behind the story” of Dickens’ classic work- how he wrote A Christmas Carol at a feverish pace in just six weeks, how he hired the illustrator John Leech and published the book at his own expense with disastrous results, and how the public immediately embraced this “ghost story of Christmas” in both England and the United States. This latest contribution to the popular Norton Anthology Series delves into the engrossing history of the book’s evolution and its initial publication just in time for Christmas 1843. Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz (8)Ĭharles Dickens’ legendary ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and misteltoe, and Micheal Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has prepared a sumptuous new edition of the holiday classic.
Introduction to Jungian Psychology (19).Trauma/Illness/Personality Disorder (21).Included are rare photographs as well as the original Leech wood engravings and hand-colored etchings, supplemented by other contemporary illustrations by George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, John Tenniel, and “Phiz.” The Annotated Christmas Carol will be a literary feast for the whole family for generations.
Initially published by Norton in 2004, this is the first edition to combine the original story with Dickens’s Public Reading text, published to coincide with his 1867-68 American tour, which has not been reprinted in nearly a century. What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens’s famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has prepared this sumptuous, thoroughly annotated edition, which has already become the definitive edition of our century.
Without question, The Annotated Christmas Carol is the most authoritative and entertaining edition of Dickens classic ever produced.
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