About the Book

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJEC
Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature
First teaching: September 2015
Next exam: June 2024

This edition of A Christmas Carol is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.

‘If I could work my will,’ said Scrooge, indignantly, ‘every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’

Miser and misanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge hates the festive season. Can the visitations of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come shake him from his habits, to show him the true value of Christmas?

Dickens’s 1843 story was written in response to the plight of the poor, the hungry, the exploited and the uneducated in Victorian society, suggesting that the true test of a society is the way it treats its children.

Critical Praise

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008325961
• ISBN 10: 0008325960
• Imprint: Collins
• On Sale: 01/14/2019
• Pages: 128
• List Price:5.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
• BISAC2 : EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement
• BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics
• BISAC4 : EDUCATION / Secondary
• BISAC5 : STUDY AIDS / Book Notes (see also JUVENILE NONFICTION / Study Aids / Book Notes or YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Study Aids / Book Notes)

Charles Dickens

Biography

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.

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