³Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster...² In Charles Dickens¹ well-loved tale, Ebenezer Scrooge ‹ a man who thinks Christmas is ³humbug² ‹ learns, through a series of ghostly visitations, the true value of charity, good humor, and love. With wit and exuberance, artist Quentin Blake captures the wintry scenes of Victorian London and Dickens¹ immortal cast of characters. Quentin Blake¹s sprightly illustrations rekindle the spirit of a timeless Christmas tale. Also available in the Pavilion Paperback Classics series: Aesop¹s Fables , Black Beauty , The Jungle Book , Just So Stories , Little Women , Peter Pan and Wendy , The Railway Children , Tales for the Telling , Tales From the African Plains , Three Men in a Boat , Treasure Island , The Wind in the Willows and World of Fairy Tales .