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by Charles Dickens (Author), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Introduction by)
Front Jacket
OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE IN THE CAPSTONE CLASSICS SERIES INCLUDE
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A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
978-0-857-08882-6 -
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
978-0-857-08848-2 -
Letters From a Stoic, Seneca
978-1-119-75135-9 -
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
978-0-857-08846-8 -
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
978-0-857-08847-5 -
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
978-0-857-08876-5 -
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano
978-0-857-08913-7 -
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
978-0-857-08844-4 -
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
978-0-857-08910-6 -
The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles
978-0-857-08008-0 -
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
978-0-857-08077-6 -
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
978-1-906-46559-9 -
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
978-0-857-08906-9 -
Utopia, Thomas More
978-1-119-75438-1
For the full list of titles in the series, please see www.thisiscapstone.com
Back Jacket
A MASTERPIECE OF FESTIVE FICTION
A Christmas Carol is the most famous and heart-warming festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, a name synonymous with greed and parsimony. On Scrooge's journey to redemption we encounter a rich array of Dickensian characters, including the poor Cratchit family with the ailing Tiny Tim. With its atmospheric descriptions of 19th century London, A Christmas Carol is an enduring gift to the world, capturing the essence of the love, kindness and generosity of the holiday season. The story's uplifting magic remains as potent today as when it was first published.
Author Biography
Charles Dickens (b. 1812) was a British author, journalist, and social commentator who wrote the beloved classics Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. His books were first published in monthly serial installments, which became a lucrative source of income following a childhood of abject poverty. His 15 novels, in their stark portraits of poor and working class people in the Victorian era, helped to bring about social change. Dickens died in June, 1870 at age 58, and is remembered as one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century.
Tom Butler-Bowdon is editor of the Capstone Classics series and has written introductions to Plato's Republic, Epictetus's Discourses, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Philosophy Classics, 50 Politics Classics, and 50 Psychology Classics.
www.butler-bowdon.com
