A Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve the miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and then by three spirits, of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, who show him his own life, the family of his underpaid clerk and his own grave. Published on 19 December 1843, it is the most famous Christmas story in the English language.

This edition, in English, has John Leech’s eight original illustrations, Dickens’s preface, 21 notes on the money, institutions, games, drinks and books a Victorian reader knew, an introduction and a chronology.