The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, & The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain

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The Christmas Books contains five Christmas novels by Charles Dickens, including: A Christmas Carol , The Chimes , The Cricket on the Hearth , The Battle of Life , and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain . Dickens’s Christmas novels perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas revival and even inspired a number of traditional aspects of the holiday, including seasonal food and drink, family gatherings, dancing, and more. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic famous for having created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters. His works became unprecedentedly popular during his life, and today he is commonly regarded as the greatest Victorian-era novelist. Although perhaps better known for such works as Oliver Twist or A Christmas Carol , Dickens first gained success with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers , which turned him almost overnight into an international literary celebrity thanks to his humour, satire, and astute observations concerning society and character. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter from Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton.