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A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics)
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A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics) Mass market paperbound - 2000

by Charles Dickens

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  • Title A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics)
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 122
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scholastic Paperbacks, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date September 1, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 59DU6Z000FM6_ns
  • ISBN 9780439101332 / 0439101336
  • Weight 0.16 lbs (0.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.82 x 4.27 x 0.6 in (17.32 x 10.85 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 900
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Christmas
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

The full title of Charles Dickens' most famous work is technically A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas. This novella was published on December 19, 1843, and the first edition run of 6000 copies were sold out by Christmas Eve of that year.

The publication of the first edition was fraught with complications, and even though the book was received to positive reviews, profits of the book fell far below Dickens' expectations, and the financial strain caused rifts between Dickens and the original publisher, Chapman & Hall.

First line

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

First Edition Identification

The initial publication of A Christmas Carol was challenged by several issues, and those issues are evident in some of the first edition identification notes. The final product of the first edition was printed with a red cloth binding with gilded pages and yellow endpapers. The very first copies were printed with green endpapers, and those copies are exceptionally rare.

The first edition contains four colored illustrations and four black and white illustrations. In the first edition, Stave I is printed with the roman numeral, while later editions spell out the number to be printed as Stave One.

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About the author

Karen Hesse is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children. Her titles include Witness, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and the Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust, among many others. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.