{"product_id":"2940013880948","title":"Dickens' Comick Christmas Carol","description":"Dickens' Comick Christmas Carol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Another Yuletide approaches. And with it yet another edition of A Christmas Carol. \"Why bother?\" you ask. And well you might. Actually, the short answer is quite simple: to make money. But there is also another reason—far less remunerative but at least somewhat more altruistic: to set the record straight.\u003cbr\u003e For although Dickens' heart-warming tale of Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the others has been beloved for over a century and a half, what most people don't know is that some years before it was published, Dickens had scripted a very different version of the story.\u003cbr\u003e This earlier manuscript, but recently unearthed, reveals the nascent comic genius of Dickens before it was so violently stifled in his later writings such as Dombey and Son and Hard Times, and then totally eradicated in his final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The manuscript also shows that Dickens had originally intended A Christmas Carol to be a light-hearted, humorous, tongue-in-cheek tale to gladden the hearts of his readers; not a sermonic, morality-interlarded ghost story to frighten them half to death.\u003cbr\u003e In publishing this book, we hope to re-introduce the public to this lighthearted, almost frivolous, facet of Dickens' rich personality. For, unlike the story ultimately published (which was intended for the lower-to-middle echelons of the gentry), this earlier version was aimed at a coarser, lower class audience: one more interested in music hall belly laughs than in the refined tittering of Covent Garden; one more at home in Evans' Supper Rooms than in Royal Albert Hall. (Of course, Royal Albert Hall wasn't around at the time but if it had been people still would have preferred Evans' Supper Rooms.)\u003cbr\u003e You owe it to yourself to be the first on your block to download a copy of: Dickens' Comick Christmas Carol and get into the true Spirit of the Christmas Present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial Staff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOxbridge Universal Press","brand":"Oxbridge Universal Press (OxUP)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167289131248,"sku":"2940013880948","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013880948_p0.jpg?v=1763596625","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013880948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}