A Christmas Carol (Penguin Christmas Classics)

A Christmas Carol (Penguin Christmas Classics)One of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions First published on December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol was an instant classic: Londoners thronged to hear Dickens read it in person and bought out the first printing in days. Its reception was so ecstatic that it is credited with helping to revive interest among the Victorians in Christmas traditions, including caroling and holiday cards, as well as inciting an unexpected wave of

product of east-end London poverty

featuring cover art by three-time Caldecott-winning illustrator David Wiesner and black-and-white illustrations by the series' original illustrator

and of stories whispered by the dead

Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender

But they’ve always done it together

Here is a declaration of love for all the big and small

The way they used to play together—Brighton on guitar

from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu

Writing to her lawyer from prison

Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances

But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription thrusts him back to reality

What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder