A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens. This classic story of hope and laughter stars Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who feels no kindness or compassion for other human beings. His one and only interest in life is to accumulate more wealth. One evening, before Christmas, Srooge meets the terrifying ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner who died seven years ago. "I am here to-night to warn you," says the chain-dragging and tormented Marley, "that you have yet a chance and a hope of escaping my fate." ... When Dickens wrote this story he "wept and laughed, and wept again," as he walked the streets of London all through the night. Other stories included here are "The Chimes"; "A Cricket on the Hearth"; "The Battle of Life"; and "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain". This special edition of the book contains all the text in the original edition, a brilliant Introduction by John Cowper Powys, and an insightful Afterword by Michael Pastore.