A Christmas Carol - Illustrated by Peter Fluck and Roger Law - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713912006 ISBN 13: 9780713912005

Publisher: Viking, 1979

Synopsis

Dickens' classic Christmastide story in which the mean Scrooge is converted to compassion and care by a series of ghostly visitations from the ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future.

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Review

"Few of the many interpretations of Dickens's holiday parable can match this handsome edition for atmosphere, mood and sheer elegance. Innocenti's full-page watercolors are striking, full-bodied evocations of 19th-century London, particularly the life and vigor of the city's streets: merchants sell their wares, urchins tumble and play, the gentry ride in their carriages, and the destitute huddle in doorways and keep warm at makeshift stoves. At the same time, the paintings' realism, dramatic intensity, occasional luminosity and almost microscopic observation of detail strongly recall the exquisite art of the Italian Renaissance. Their stateliness is carried through in the book's design: each page of text is boxed with fine sepia rules, overlaid with a delicate, gradually fading wash, and topped by a single, modest ornament. The effect suggests an old manuscript or parchment--one that, every so often, opens a splendid pictorial window on the world of this classic narrative. For all its elegance, however, this is a somber and unsentimental view of Dickens's world. The beautiful and the sordid, the good and the malevolent, are never far apart --a concept that is powerfully suggested through the frequent use of high, oddly angled perspectives, as if readers, along with Scrooge and the spirits, are privy to telling glimpses of life skimmed from above. All ages." - Publisher's Weekly

"A handsome, worthy addition to holiday reading traditions." - School Library Journal --School Library Journal

From the Publisher

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0713912006
• ISBN 13: 9780713912005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72
• Illustrator: Fluck Peter And Law Roger