| The Christmas Stories Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1470890585 ISBN-13: 9781470890582 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 5.8" (0.35 lbs) |
| Themes: - Holiday - Christmas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends. Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vance, Simon: - Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. Dickens, Charles: -Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. |
