This version is the original 1843 edition which includes eight original colour illustrations by J. Leech. A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is a timeless Christmas Classic, which has endured almost two centuries and is still a firm favourite with both children and adults. This is the story of the infamous miser Ebenezer Scrooge and begins on a cold Christmas Eve night. Excerpt from the book: " Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, 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. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. " Read as the story unfolds when Scrooge meets three Christmas Spirits that show him his past, present and future. Meet Bob Cratchit and his unfortunate son Tiny Tim. Wonderful story telling, injected with the original illustrations by J. Leech, a must read at Christmas time.