The Christmas Books ( editura: Penguin Books, autor: Charles Dickens, ISBN 9780140623604 )

Penguin Popular Classics - The Christmas Books (A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The cricket on the Hearth) - complete and unabridged

'What a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these and just filled people's hearts with pity' (Robert Louis Stevenson)

An unsurpassed blending of vibrant storytelling and social conscience, "A Christmas Carol" is one of Dickens's most perennially popular stories.
It tells of Scrooge, now byword for misanthropy and avarice, who is transported through time to the Christmasses of his childhood, of the present and of the future. Heeding the dreadful warning of what is to be if Scrooge does not mend his ways, the old miser repents and is suffused with Christmas spirit.

Along with "The chimes" and "The cricket on the Hearth", "A Christmas carol" celebrates the joys of the festive season. Each of these books is politically provocative and aims to stimulate the reader's pity and charity for the poor, but the tone is so intimate and the style so humorous that poverty and ignorance yield to generosity and compassion.