ISBN-13:	9780141195858
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/28/2010
Series:	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	31,906
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.