{"product_id":"a-christmas-carol-and-other-stories-9780198822394","title":"A Christmas Carol: And Other Stories","description":"Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. \u003cem\u003eA Christmas Carol \u003c\/em\u003ehas gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: \u003cem\u003eThe Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Man. \u003c\/em\u003eAll five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim \"to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198822394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.50w x 1.60d","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635132428444,"sku":"9780198822394","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_64f9759d-73fb-4ce5-955d-a74a9912f821.jpg?v=1603838648","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-christmas-carol-and-other-stories-9780198822394","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}