I heard of it with great sorrow at the time and have often inquired concerning you, of mutual friends. I will not venture to condole with you, upon the loss you have sustained. No roar of approbation that human voice could set up, would affect me like the faintest whisper of a home such as yours. From that moment…to the present, I have met with few things, certainly I have read no book of our own age which has given me such relief - rather I should say afforded me so much consolation as I have derived from the kindly humanizing & therefore cheerful spirit of the Christmas Carol…’ĭickens' tender letter in response assures him: “trust me you were not wrong in believing - in feeling well-assured I hope - that the testimony you bear to the success of my little book, would sink deep into my heart, and fill it with sad delight. I described as ‘to me more than my son - all my plans of life & hopes of enjoyment having been more or less him - perhaps too much so. John Dillon, a London philanthropist, explains in a note included here that he had written a letter to Dickens sharing that he "had lost by death one who. This copy includes a letter from Dickens to a friend, for whom A Christmas Carol was a major comfort after the death of his son.
This book, which has come to define Christmas in the Anglophone imagination, was immediately popular-selling out within the month of its publication (by Christmas Eve). London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.įirst edition and first impression of "The Bible of Christmas," with a poignant letter from Dickens discussing the novel (Eckel). After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.Illustrator John LeechCountry EnglandPublished 19 December 1843Publisher Chapman & HallText A Christmas Carol at WikisourceA Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 the first edition was illustrated by John Leech.
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens-A Christmas Carol-Cloth-First Edition 1843.jpgFirst edition cover (1843)Author Charles DickensOriginal title A Christmas Carol. Octavo (8" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. 131 pages with frontispiece, illustrated title, pictorial end papers and illustrations throughout by Michael Foreman.
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