Name/Title
Christmas StoriesEntry/Object ID
2013-001-0004Description
This book contains two stories: A Christmas Carol and The Chimes. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. The Chimes is a short novel by Charles Dickens that was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. The Chimes concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.
Book belonged to Benjamin and Mary Urman Jacobson.
Brown cloth binding with yellow/gold colored spine print. 106 and 96 pages. Hardcover. Undated. 5" x 7.5", illustrations.Book Details
Author
Charles DickensEdition
Art-TypePlace Published
City
New York CityState/Province
New YorkCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1938 - 1960Publication Language
EnglishNotes
Date: 1940s-1950s circa
Copy No.: 1Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Benjamin JacobsonPerson or Organization
Mary Urman Jacobson
