Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.
No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than the master himself, Charles Dickens. Collected here in one volume are his five famous Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Read and reread these heartwarming classics to yourself or to a loved one every holiday season.… (meer)
andejons: It's almost like Lagerlöf set out to write a follow-up to Dicken's five Christmas stories:
Set at Christmas or New Years Eve: check.
Social commentary: check.
Supernatural mechanisms: check.
Reformed characters: check.
Her book is a bit more scary and less cheerful, though.… (meer)
Anonieme gebruiker: The Greatest Gift is the book that was turned into It's a Wonderful Life, probably the second best Christmas story after A Christmas Carol!
Pocket Book of five Christmas stories of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man
If there's a better book to read in December, I've yet to find one. Spending the weeks before Christmas with Dickens is becoming an enjoyable tradition for me. It's a quick read, filled with poignant writing, and the message helps keep things in perspective (for me, at any rate). ( )
Dickens stories are always welcome. Includes: A Christmas Carol; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Chimes; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain; The Battle of Life.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The narrow space within which it was necessary to confine these Christmas Stories when they were originally published, rendered their construction a matter of some difficulty, and almost necessitated what is peculiar in their machinery. (Author's Preface)
Marley was dead, to begin with. (A Christmas Carol)
There are not many people - and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again - there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. (The Chimes)
The kettle began it! (The Cricket on the Hearth)
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. (The Battle of Life)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Deepened in its gravity by the firelight, and gazing from the darkness of the paneled wall like life, the sedate face in the portrait, with the beard and ruff, looked down at them from under its verdant wreath of holly, as they looked up at it; and, clear and plain below, as if a voice had uttered them, were the words Lord! Keep my Memory Green! (The Haunted Man)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Includes the five Christmas novels: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), The Haunted Man (1848)
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Oorspronkelijke taal
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than the master himself, Charles Dickens. Collected here in one volume are his five famous Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Read and reread these heartwarming classics to yourself or to a loved one every holiday season.
)
)
Google Books — Bezig met laden...
1