A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Hardback)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Hardback)A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt

That woman is Faye

for whom Circe will risk everything

these nursery rhymes prove that girls can be the heroes of any story

and how far she will go for what she believes

From here on

Fantin-Latour

Spot illustrations throughout from Frances Castle

These extraordinary

has the future to look forward to

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature

but repressed for centuries by a value system that trivializes emotional truth

Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn