{"product_id":"the-christmas-books-vol-2-by-charles-dickens-u-k-paperback-1978-penguin","title":"The Christmas Books Vol. 2 by Charles Dickens [U.K. PAPERBACK] 1978 • Penguin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Christmas Books Volume 2 by Charles Dickens (Cricket on the Hearth, Battle of Life, The Haunted Man) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdited with Introductions and Notes by\u003cstrong\u003e Michael Slater\u003c\/strong\u003e and original illustrations by \u003cstrong\u003eMaclise, Doyle, Leech Stanfield, Landseer, Tenniel and Frank Stone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVINTAGE U.K. PAPERBACK [1978] PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeluxe hardcover treasury w. decorative gilded frontispiece and sewn in silken red bookmark, collecting all of Dickens Christmas themed works in one complete volume for the first time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVintage UK paperback.  Like new and unread with minor corner crease to cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReads like new with a hint of tanning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cricket on the Hearth\u003c\/i\u003e, Dickens's third, eagerly awaited Christmas book, was the most popular of all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in a pantomime world of toys, it was acclaimed by an amused and delighted Thackeray as a fancy 'crammed with extra bonbons, French plums and sweetnesses...a Christmas pageant which you witness in the arm-chair -- your private box by the fireside'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, subtitled 'A Love Story', has little in common with the other Christmas books, although it does share the theme of the morally beneficial effects of memory, which runs throughout the genre and is central to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This last Christmas book contains one of Dickens's greatest comic families -- the Tetterbys -- and a horrifying, concentrated poignancy in its depiction of the Hungry Forties which foreshadowed the achievement of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBleak House.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Apocalypse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48664268734713,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/3103\/1574\/files\/dickenschristmasbooksvol2-1.jpg?v=1784010903","url":"https:\/\/bookshopapocalypse.com\/products\/the-christmas-books-vol-2-by-charles-dickens-u-k-paperback-1978-penguin","provider":"Bookshop Apocalypse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}