DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books.
The Christmas Books.
[A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man].
Stock Code 116474
London, Chapman & Hall, [c.1870].
After the success attained with A Christmas Carol, Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840s, maintaining what he called 'the Carol philosophy' to strike a 'sledgehammer blow' for the poor, uneducated, and repressed. In typical Dickens fashion he drove his message home with a mixture of humour and good cheer. Margaret Lane points out in her introduction to the Christmas Stories 'when he had a pill to offer he confected it expertly with spice and sugar' (Christmas Stories, p. vi-vii).
The subsequent Christmas books sold well at the time of their release and The Chimes, The Cricket, and The Carol formed the centrepiece of Dickens' public reading tours in the 1850s and 60s.
Single vol. edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 5 engraved plates, including frontispiece, 38 further in-text illustrations; 20th-century half blue calf, marbled paper, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges, occasional spotting, very good; [8], 465, [1]pp.
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