'What a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books
like these and just filled people's hearts with pity'
- Robert Louis Stevenson

An unsurpassed blending of vibrant storytelling and social
conscience, A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens's most
perennially popular stories.

It tells of Scrooge, now a byword for misanthropy and
avarice, who is transported through time to the
Christmasses of his childhood, of the present and of the
future. Heeding the dreadful warning of what is to be if
Scrooge does not mend his ways, the old miser repents
and is suffused with Christmas spirit.

Along with The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, .
A Carol celebrates the joys of the festive season.
Each of these books is politically provocative and aims to
stimulate the reader's pity and charity for the poor, but the
tone is so intimate and the style so humorous that poverty
and ignorance yield to generosity and compassion.