<B>Dicken's Christmas writings-in a new, sumptuous, and delightful clothbound edition. </B> <BR><BR> Dickens's classic <I>A Christmas Carol</I> has had significant influence on our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory. This handsome edition features appendices on <I>A Christmas Carol</I> and <I>The Haunted Man</I>, an essay on Dickens and <I>The Arabian Nights</I>, and Dickens's prefaces to the collected editions of the Christmas books.