书名：A Christmas Carol圣诞颂歌

作者：Charles Dickens 

出版社名称：Bantam Classic 

出版时间：1986 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780553212440 

商品尺寸：10.6 x 0.7 x 17.5 cm 

包装：平装

页数：112（以实物为准） ★入选英国《卫报》评选的“人生必读的100本书”。

★入选BBC评选的“有史以来伟大的100部小说”。

★村上春树推荐的阅读书目。

★金庸非常喜欢的一部圣诞故事集。

★凭借该书狄更斯被称为“发明圣诞节的人”。

狄更斯所著的A Christmas Carol《圣诞颂歌》初版于1843年，是历史上很受欢迎的圣诞故事，奠定了现代意义上的圣诞节在西方世界的地位，已被多次改编成儿童图书、剧本、电影和动画。狄更斯用引人入胜的艺术手法向穷人和富人进行宣传，要求改善穷人的“命运”，改造富人的道德品质。从人道主义出发，作家揭露了统治阶级的种种罪恶，对无家可归的失业工人表示深刻的同情，对压迫者表示了极大的愤怒。书中的一些情节已经成为欧洲圣诞节的固定风俗，而主人公斯克鲁济（Scrooge）的名字也被收入字典，成为“吝啬鬼”的同义词。

在一个圣诞节前夜，自私冷酷却很富有的吝啬鬼斯克鲁奇，遇到了“过去”“现在”和“未来”三个圣诞精灵，经历了三场不同的奇遇：既有他童年和青年生活的回忆，又有当下他的职员和外甥全家欢度节日的愉快场景，还有他孤零零地死去之后尸体遭到劫掠的悲惨画面……斯克鲁奇内心受到了极大震撼，决定痛改前非，拥抱美好的生活，改变自己的命运。

Merry Christmas, everyone!

“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!”

With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a very special holiday experience.

It is the one book that every year will warm our hearts with favorite memories of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—and will remind us with laughter and tears that the true Christmas spirit comes from giving with love.

With a heartwarming account of Dickens’ first reading of the Carol, and a biographical sketch.

查尔斯·狄更斯（1812—1870），英国维多利亚时期伟大的小说家、讽刺巨匠、语言大师，代表作有长篇小说《雾都孤儿》《远大前程》《双城记》等。狄更斯想要把“充满爱心和宽恕，与人为善的快乐的”圣诞精神传达给人们，因此在1843年至1848年间写了5个圣诞故事，其中《圣诞颂歌》后来成为他的小说里非常受欢迎的一部。家庭团聚、互换礼物、享用大餐的现代圣诞节，也是自此才流行起来。

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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