-Dickens's Works Christmas Books*

b 1870 The Christmas Books: bound with the Mystery of Edwin Drood.  A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Goblin Story, The Cricket on the Hearth, A Fairy Tale of Home, The Battle of Life, A love Story, The Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain.

Quote

"What I would say, is, that as I see my life going on, year after year, in the same dull round; living in the same narrow streets, going in the same melancholy parks, walking in the same weary crowds, passing the same lean houses, and seeing the same objects look out of the same windows, and seeing the same objects go by in the street on the same trampers' carts, and seeing the same vermin, and the same old vermin, down in the street on the same old vermin-carts; and so on, year after year, and not a bit of change; that I feel as if I was frozen up in my old coat and pantaloons and couldn't get out of 'em."- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Note

"In the twilight of that day, when the shadow of the chimney-stack, stretching over the roof, made the schoolroom look like a prison, and the wind was heard without, blowing mournfully among the trees and I knew that the gathering gloom without was almost emblematical of the growing darkness within my mind—I would sit near the window, spelling over to myself the words of my prayer-book, and puzzling myself with perverse questionings about Heaven and the dead; wondering whether my mother was really ignorant of all that had been done, with a misgiving that if she were, it would not be much to her disappointment, and with a jealous yet half-doubting hope that I might come to be better regarded now."-The Haunted Man

Description

Black and Gold  3/4 leather binding with marbled front and back cover, binding has gold embossing and lettering, marbled leaves.