Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
In this classic, heart-warming tale, four ghostly guests teach valuable lessons to an old miser. Ebenezer Scrooge, a selfish, crotchety skinflint, spends his days counting money and grousing, "Bah Humbug!" Scrooge doesn't care for anyone other than himself. However, on Christmas Eve, he is visited by his partner Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, who teach him about benevolence, charity, and goodwill.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.
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Show moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
In this classic, heart-warming tale, four ghostly guests teach valuable lessons to an old miser. Ebenezer Scrooge, a selfish, crotchety skinflint, spends his days counting money and grousing, "Bah Humbug!" Scrooge doesn't care for anyone other than himself. However, on Christmas Eve, he is visited by his partner Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, who teach him about benevolence, charity, and goodwill.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.
Read with confidence.
Show moreSir Patrick Stewart is a distinguished stage and screen actor whose illustrious career spans six decades. A classically trained theater artist who got his start at England's Royal Shakespeare Company, Stewart's legendary performances have garnered him three Olivier Awards, Emmy and Tony Award nominations, and a Grammy Award, among countless honors. His beloved screen work, known to audiences worldwide, includes his iconic portrayals of Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard and X-Men's Professor Charles Xavier. Follow him on social media at @SirPatStew.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833, he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
"Entertainment Weekly" A low tech audio Christmas card: no sound
effects, no gimmicks, just one of the the great voices of the
contemporary classical stage creating as vivid a cast of characters
as Dickens imagines. The Royal Shakespeare Company
veteran...doesn't so much read the story as inhabit it with
infectious delight.
"Newsweek" Reciting the litany of Scrooge's scrooginess, Stewart
relishes the emotional gamut of meanness...Humbug seldom sounds so
good.
"The Washington Post" Not only is Patrick Stewart wonderful, but
this is surely one of the best performances of "A Christmas Carol"
ever recorded...By sheer energy and dramatic skill, Stewart invests
this story with not merely life, but freshness, excitement and
wonder.
"Entertainment Weekly"A low tech audio Christmas card: no sound
effects, no gimmicks, just one of the the great voices of the
contemporary classical stage creating as vivid a cast of characters
as Dickens imagines. The Royal Shakespeare Company
veteran...doesn't so much read the story as inhabit it with
infectious delight.
"Newsweek"Reciting the litany of Scrooge's scrooginess, Stewart
relishes the emotional gamut of meanness...Humbug seldom sounds so
good.
"The Washington Post"Not only is Patrick Stewart wonderful, but
this is surely one of the best performances of "A Christmas Carol"
ever recorded...By sheer energy and dramatic skill, Stewart invests
this story with not merely life, but freshness, excitement and
wonder.
A well-loved holiday story, Dickens's slim tale has been opened up on the oversize pages of this new version, similar in format to Zwerger's treatment of The Gift of the Magi. Expanses of white space around and between lines of text give the volume a clean-looking design, which sets off the artist's charm-filled, airy watercolors. And that design is of key importance to the unabridged text, for the book appears accessible to readers just out of the picture book age. This is a fine collector's edition as well; Zwerger has chosen not to represent the three spirits of Christmas, but merely hints at their presence in her pictures. That grounds the story of Scrooge's night firmly in the realm of the almost-real and the possible, and renders his transformation a fully believable phenomenon. Ages 10-up. (September)
"Entertainment Weekly" A low tech audio Christmas card: no sound
effects, no gimmicks, just one of the the great voices of the
contemporary classical stage creating as vivid a cast of characters
as Dickens imagines. The Royal Shakespeare Company
veteran...doesn't so much read the story as inhabit it with
infectious delight.
"Newsweek" Reciting the litany of Scrooge's scrooginess, Stewart
relishes the emotional gamut of meanness...Humbug seldom sounds so
good.
"The Washington Post" Not only is Patrick Stewart wonderful, but
this is surely one of the best performances of "A Christmas Carol"
ever recorded...By sheer energy and dramatic skill, Stewart invests
this story with not merely life, but freshness, excitement and
wonder.
"Entertainment Weekly"A low tech audio Christmas card: no sound
effects, no gimmicks, just one of the the great voices of the
contemporary classical stage creating as vivid a cast of characters
as Dickens imagines. The Royal Shakespeare Company
veteran...doesn't so much read the story as inhabit it with
infectious delight.
"Newsweek"Reciting the litany of Scrooge's scrooginess, Stewart
relishes the emotional gamut of meanness...Humbug seldom sounds so
good.
"The Washington Post"Not only is Patrick Stewart wonderful, but
this is surely one of the best performances of "A Christmas Carol"
ever recorded...By sheer energy and dramatic skill, Stewart invests
this story with not merely life, but freshness, excitement and
wonder.
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