Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading Christmas Carol the
notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and
threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have
been so dramatic but along with Dickens other Christmas writings it has had a lasting and
significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit and about the season as a time
for celebration charity and memory.
