Author: | Charles Dickens | ISBN: | 9780393608656 |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | November 1, 2016 |
Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
ISBN: | 9780393608656 |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication: | November 1, 2016 |
Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Language: | English |
A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic.
Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens’s own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition presents a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan’s chief literary curator on the history of the story, and a new foreword by Colm Tóibín celebrating its timeless appeal.
A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic.
Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens’s own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition presents a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan’s chief literary curator on the history of the story, and a new foreword by Colm Tóibín celebrating its timeless appeal.