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The Essential Christmas Classics Collection (Boxed Set)
A Christmas Carol; The Nutcracker; Twelve Classics of Christmas
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Celebrate the holidays with this collection of Christmas classics, including A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and a collection of holiday short stories—together in one paperback boxed set! Celebrate the season with this collection of popular holiday stories from Christmases past. This set includes E. T. A....
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Celebrate the holidays with this collection of Christmas classics, including A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and a collection of holiday short stories—together in one paperback boxed set!
Celebrate the season with this collection of popular holiday stories from Christmases past. This set includes E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker, the story of a girl’s Christmas gift coming to life and battling the sinister mouse king, which later inspired Tchaikovsky’s popular holiday ballet. Next is A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’s renowned novella about the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge being confronted with his greed and learning the meaning of Christmas.
Rounding out the set is The Twelve Classics of Christmas, a collection of twelve holiday short stories. From favourites like Clement C. Moore’s 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi to lesser-known tales from beloved authors like Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Brothers Grimm, this anthology is the perfect way to count down to Christmas.
This festive paperback boxed set includes:
- A Christmas Carol
- The Nutcracker
- The Twelve Classics of Christmas
Series: The Essential Christmas Classics Collection
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781665977814
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 October 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Aladdin
Edition: Boxed Set
Illustration: f-c matte aqueous box w- no sfx; books: f-c soft-touch matte lam cvr on metallic stock w- emboss and spot uv
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 33.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833, he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines and in 1836 started the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round.
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a writer, composer, and painter. Born in Prussia, he served as a law officer until Napoleon’s invasion, after which he settled in Germany and turned his attention to the arts. He is best remembered for his writings of Romanticism and Gothic Horror, and for his novella originally titled Nutcracker and Mouse King, which later inspired Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
A Simon & Schuster author.
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