Cuentos de Navidad

It has been said that Charles Dickens invented the celebration of Christmas as we know it, and perhaps no other writer has so masterfully evoked the simultaneously joyful and elegiac spirit of that time of year. Inspired by the 1852 English edition, this volume brings together the celebrated "A Christmas Carol" and four other stories set at Christmas: "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted." All of them highlight the main themes of the Dickensian universe: charity, childhood, folk legends, social inequalities, dreams, and personal redemption. In addition to Nuria Salinas's meticulous translation, this edition includes an introduction by Michael Slater, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and one of the world's leading experts on the life and work of the English author. Thanks to his notes, the beauty of this essential work of fiction is accompanied by a precise understanding of an entire era.