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A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth Barnes Noble Classics Charles Dickens Katherine Kroeber Wiley 9781593080334 Books

The introduction by Katherine Kroeber Wiley is one of the best discussions of A Christmas Carol that I've ever read. She takes the fascinating position that the novella has nothing to do with money and defends it admirably. Her notes on the text are insightful and sometimes exhibit a dry wit in addition to being useful.

My favorite of the three stories will always be "A Christmas Carol." While many of us have grown up watching the story on film there is nothing quite like reading the original text. Everyone should do it at least once in a lifetime, but once every year is an even better idea!

I had never read "The Chimes" before. It is definitely written to be read aloud. The words of the text chime as surely as the bells in the tower. I've never read anything from Dickens quite like it.

I found "The Cricket on the Hearth" to be far less accessible than the other two stories. I found myself waiting for the supernatural element to show up, though when it did it was neither what nor how I expected it to be.

The study materials at the back are thought provoking. I found myself wishing that I had a discussion group to explore them with.

All in all, quite the excellent edition of Dickens's works and a superb addition to anyone's collection of British Literature.


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A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth Barnes Noble Classics Charles Dickens Katherine Kroeber Wiley 9781593080334 Books Reviews

This book is one of the Barnes & Noble Classics, reissues of classic books with added notes and in nice trade paperback editions. Most everyone will be familiar with the first story in the book - A Christmas Carol. We have seen theater productions, movies, and other books. We know who Scrooge is, what Tiny Tim says, and what the four ghosts do with Scrooge. We certainly know the expression Bah! Humbug! A Christmas Carol is indeed a classic and would always deserve five stars by itself.

However, the other two stories are not in the same league. Dickens wrote them in the years following the publication of A Christmas Carol because it had been a success and he wanted to see if more profits could be obtained. He made some money but the last two stories have not held up nearly as well as A Christmas Carol over the years.

The Chimes is a story of a messenger named Toby Veck and his efforts to eke out a meager existence and to help his daughter find happiness. Toby is fascinated by the sound of the bells in the bell tower close to where he stations himself each day hoping to find paying customers. In the story he is drawn one night up into the tower itself where he meets phantoms who show him what the future may hold if he continues on his present path. These phantoms are nothing like the ghosts in A Christmas Carol. Toby's primary belief in life is that the poorer people like him deserve their station in life. The phantoms get his attention long enough so that possible events cause him to change his belief and possibly give his family a chance at a better life. The story is fairly dense and is written in Dickens' usual style.

The Cricket on the Hearth is the third story and once again expresses Dickens' point of view that needy people can be and should be helped to lead good, productive lives. The tale takes place around the turning of the New Year. This one does not involve spirits but is more like some of Dickens' popular novels. A hardworking family just getting by finds their situation turning worse. Tensions grow between the husband and wife. A mystery guest appears, and everything works out for the best in the end.

If you like Dickens, you will enjoy this book. I also recommend that you try Les Standiford's new book The Man Who Invented Christmas. It will give you the history of the development of Dickens' Christmas stories and will help you to understand what the atmosphere was like in England when the stories were written in the mid-19th century
Pretty good book.
Beautiful product! Arrived quickly.
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This classic collection is absolutely beautifully bound in leather. Every Christmas I read one of the stories. My fav is "The Cricket on the Hearth". I am very happy with this book. This is one to own and pass down to my children.
Very disappointed, price ridiculous for this book. Sent it back
Inexcusable version problem. REQUEST TO KINDLE READERS Please help out your fellow readers by writing reviews that state whether or not there were problems with the version that you purchased. It would be so helpful to read a review that stated " version was easy to navigate." or "Supposed to be annotated, but could not find the footnotes", etc.

At location 525 of A Christmas Carol, I suddently realized that I was reading a section of the Mayor of Castorbridge. Instead of the two gentlemen who visit Scrooge to solicit funds for the poor, I was reading Hardy's wife selling scene. About location 575, I was back at Scrooge & Marley with a visit from Fred Scrooge. Note that this is not a problem with my accessing the wrong section of its memory, as I do not have an e-copy of the Mayor of Castorbridge on my .
I should have known when I saw a typo in the Table of Contents (The Cricket on the Hearth's first section is "Chird" not "Chirp the First") that this was not going to be an acceptable read. The text is annotated although there is no indication in the Table of Contents of the location of the footnote section.
I do not know what other surprising "Ghosts of other Authors" await further along in this version. I'll have to purchase another text to read for my Dickens book group.
The introduction by Katherine Kroeber Wiley is one of the best discussions of A Christmas Carol that I've ever read. She takes the fascinating position that the novella has nothing to do with money and defends it admirably. Her notes on the text are insightful and sometimes exhibit a dry wit in addition to being useful.

My favorite of the three stories will always be "A Christmas Carol." While many of us have grown up watching the story on film there is nothing quite like reading the original text. Everyone should do it at least once in a lifetime, but once every year is an even better idea!

I had never read "The Chimes" before. It is definitely written to be read aloud. The words of the text chime as surely as the bells in the tower. I've never read anything from Dickens quite like it.

I found "The Cricket on the Hearth" to be far less accessible than the other two stories. I found myself waiting for the supernatural element to show up, though when it did it was neither what nor how I expected it to be.

The study materials at the back are thought provoking. I found myself wishing that I had a discussion group to explore them with.

All in all, quite the excellent edition of Dickens's works and a superb addition to anyone's collection of British Literature.