Part of Penguin's beautiful Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these exquisite and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colorful, tactile cloth with a foil-stamped design. After reading A Christmas Carol, the well-known and reclusive Thomas Carlyle was \"seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality\" and hosted not one but two Christmas dinners. The story's impact may not always have been so dramatic, but alongside Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has exerted a lasting and significant influence on our ideas about the spirit of Christmas, as well as the season as an opportunity for celebration, charity, and remembrance.