An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December
1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial
Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly
Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness,
charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter
with four ghosts, is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of
Christmas. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also
includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: "The
Chimes," in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the
poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic
resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of
bells, and "The Haunted Man," Dickens's last Christmas tale, which
features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys.
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