Name: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (Cactus Classics Large Print): 16 Point Font; Large Text; Large Type; Illustrated
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781773600048

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Marc Cactus

Other

Cactus Publishing Inc

Publisher

Cactus Classics

Language

English

Pages

214

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781773600048

Synopsis "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (Cactus Classics Large Print): 16 Point Font; Large Text; Large Type; Illustrated"

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN (With illustrations from the original 1848 edition.) by Charles DickensEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point Font FONT: 16 point Garamond BOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm) COVER: Glossy PAPER: Cream TABLE OF CONTENTS: Yes TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point size) editions are typeset with the Garamond font. These editions have a glossy cover, cream paper interior, wide margins, generous white space and good spacing between lines of text.ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHORThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain was written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and was first published in 1848. This edition contains illustrations from the original 1848 edition.The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, which is also known as the Haunted Man, focuses on chemistry professor Redlaw, those close to him, a spirit who haunts him and the spirit of the holidays, similar to A Christmas Carol.The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the fifth of five Christmas novellas by Charles Dickens. The five novellas are A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848). The most famous Christmas themed novella is A Christmas Carol.Charles Dickens was a prolific writer of novels, novellas, short stories and other works.OTHER CHRISTMAS THEMED BOOKS BY CHARLES DICKENS ISBN: 9781773600000 - A Christmas Carol (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600017 - The Battle of Life (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600024 - The Chimes (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600031 - The Cricket on the Hearth (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600048 - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600055 - Some Christmas Stories (Cactus Classics Large Print)

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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