This luxurious, large-format gift edition presents Charles Dickens' best-loved Christmas stories, featuring gold cover embossing, printed page edges and classic illustrations.

A time of charity and choir, cozy gatherings around the fire, time spent with friends and family, and snow on the ground. All of these festive traditions along with many others were cemented in the public conscience by Charles Dickens' Christmas stories.

This collection contains five of Dickens' best-loved Christmas stories: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, The Chimes, and the best-known and most-treasured of all, A Christmas Carol. These are accompanied by 40 classic illustrations by John Leech, John Tenniel and others, as well as a a detailed introduction to Dickens' life and Christmas stories, written by George Davidson.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Epic Classics brings together stunning hardback gift editions of classic works, presented with striking illustrated page edges and illustrated throughout by such greats as Gustave Doré and Harry Clarke.