A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 <em>A Christmas Carol</em>, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens's own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, <em>A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition</em> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Dickens's] handwritten pages, digitally photographed in full color for the first time. . . . Now [readers] can see more clearly how [<em>A Christmas Carol</em>] came to be.--John Williams "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>A perennial holiday favorite is immortalized with a singular trade edition of the original manuscript. . . . Impressively produced and crisply analyzed by both [Colm] Tóibín and [Declan] Kiely, [it] harbors the potential to joyfully transform a burdensome year of 'misery to merriness.' A unique, ageless Yuletide treasure for fans and collectors alike.-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><br>It is thrilling to have, for the first time available to everyone, a superbly-produced facsimile of the manuscript of <em>A Christmas Carol</em>, which enables us to follow every stroke of Dickens's pen as, in a white heat of excitement, he creates his timeless Christmas masterpiece.--MICHAEL SLATER, author of Charles Dickens<br>
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