Christmas stories

Author(s)

• Dickens, Charles

Bibliographic Information

Christmas stories

by Charles Dickens ; with thirteen illustrations by E.G. Dalziel ... [et al.] ; and an introduction by Margaret Lane

（The Oxford illustrated Dickens）

Oxford University Press, 1956

Contents of Works

• A Christmas tree
• What Christmas is as we grow older
• The poor relation's story
• The child's story
• The schoolboy's story
• Nobody's story
• The seven poor travellers
• Holly-tree
• The wreck of the Golden Mary
• The perils of certain English prisoners
• Going into society
• The haunted house
• A message from the sea
• Tom Tiddler's ground
• Somebody's luggage
• Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings
• Mrs. Lirriper's legacy
• Doctor Marigold
• Mugby junction
• No thoroughfare
• The lazy tour of two idle apprentices

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.

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Details

• NCID: BA03462458
• ISBN:
  • 0192545175
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 758 p., [13] leaves of plates
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4557
  • NDC7 : 933
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christmas stories
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01495489