Exam board: AQA,Edexcel,Eduqas,WJECLevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008325961Number of pages: 128Weight: 85 gDimensions: 178 x 111 x 8 mm
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Charles Dickens
A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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