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The National Gallery Masterpiece Classics: A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens
Series: The National Gallery Masterpiece Classics
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The National Gallery Masterpiece Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless story of personal transformation. It follows the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by three spirits. These encounters lead him on a journey of self-reflection as he learns the true spirit of Christmas, filled with compassion and generosity.
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Part of a new series of beloved children's classics featuring unique covers of famous artwork. Enjoy the greatest Christmas story ever written in this handsome new gift volume.

Part of a new series of beloved children's classics featuring unique covers of famous artwork. Enjoy the greatest Christmas story ever written in this handsome new gift volume.

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Enjoy the greatest Christmas story ever written in this handsome new gift volume. Produced in association with the UK's National Gallery, this new hardback edition's dustjacket features art from the National Gallery's collection, and includes expert notes on the art.

This edition contains the full original text of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. When the miser Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve, he is given a chance to understand the meaning of Christmas in the past and present and perhaps change his fate for Christmases yet to come. A perennial favourite with adults and children alike, this story has become one of the most famous Christmas tales since its first publication in 1843.

This volume is part of the Masterpiece Classics series from Welbeck, which includes The Jungle Books, Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803381565

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Welbeck Children's Books

Illustration: No

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 336

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Charles Dickens Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Christmas Books and Gifts Classic Fiction Series: The National Gallery Masterpiece Classics

About the Author

One of the UK's most celebrated novelists, Charles Dickens was the author of 15 novels and the creator of a host of unforgettable characters. A Christmas Carol is the most famous of his hundreds of short stories.

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