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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens’s spooky but wonderfully Christmassy tale, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

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‘These might be the most beautiful books I’ve ever seen? Get them in an art gallery’
‘The marbled paper <3 I could cry' 'Love love love this collection ' 'I must have all of them <3 <3' 'Our beloved classics with sprayed edges too! They are absolutely STUNNING!' 'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts. But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been... This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

Publisher Review

It has it all: a spooky ghost story, a heartwarming redemption and a great plot with a satisfyingly ending-The Times

A story which, perhaps more than any other, sums up the spirit of the British Christmas-Sunday Telegraph

A little masterpiece…irresistible-Sunday Express

Marley’s ghostly face on the knocker of Scrooge’s door still gives me the shivers-Michael Morpurgo, Independent

So what makes these different to any other set of classics? In a moment of inspiration Random House had the bright idea of actually asking Key stage 2 children what extra ingredients they could add to make children want to read. And does it work? Well, put it this way…my 13-year-old daughter announced that she had to read a book over the summer holiday and, without any prompting, spotted The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas…and proceeded to read it! Now, if you knew my 13-year-old daughter, you would realise that this is quite remarkable. She reads texts, blogs and tags by the thousand – but this is the first book she has read since going to high school, so all hail Vintage Classics!-National Association for the Teaching of English