A beautiful hardcover edition of the timeless story of everyone s favorite misanthrope Ebenezer Scrooge together with four more of Dickens s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham s classic illustrations. With an introuduction by Margaret Atwood. No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk Bob Cratchit of Bob s kindhearted lame son Tiny Tim and of the Ghosts of Christmas Past Present and Future. First published in 1843 A Christmas Carol was republished in 1852 in a new edition with four other Christmas stories--The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man. These beloved tales revived the notion of the Christmas spirit --and have kept it alive ever since.