Republished: Charles Dickens Holiday Classic Contemporary Illustrated
Posted on : 09-11-2018 | By : leeDS | In : General
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Classic Christmas stories and a timeless lesson: “Christmas Eve”by the story of Ebenezer Scrooge Charles Dickens! Everyone knows the story of the nasty, stingy businessman Ebenezer Scrooge who hates Christmas and otherwise holds little of celebrations and charity. Visit to unpleasant by the spirit of his deceased Jacob Marley companions of the night before Christmas until he receives. And he announces heavily festooned with the chains of his mistakes in life, a hard lot in the hereafter it, when it is not in time begins to regret his hard-heartedness. The visit of three ghosts is to him the right way are written in 1843, has the classic Christmas Eve “by Charles Dickens lost none of fascination today. With wonderful contemporary color drawings of the famous English Illustrator Arthur Rackham, nostalgic version of the reprint published just pulls Verlag of Leipzig into the spell the Christmas ghost story. The spirit of Christmas: One With his ghost story, the famous English novelist Charles Dickens gave the infamous spirit of Christmas contemplative horror story a voice of Arthur Rackham gave a figure with his illustrations. No gold curly Angels haunts the old Scrooge there, but the nightmarish mirror image of a lost soul. Warning and awful, because the capitalist Misanthrope Scrooge must be brought to its senses before it’s too late.
Dickens parable on these verbatim taken Merry Christmas has in the drawings by Rackham, also by his illustrations for Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland known a unique translation in the world of images found. Inimitable he captures a classic in the classic the atmospheric density of the narrative. The Christmas Eve make attention to the bad social situation of the British underclasses wanted a wise parable, timeless current and nostalgic illustrated Charles Dickens in 1843 to. Actually, this parable has probably timeless character. Superbly illustrated by Arthur Rackham kidnapped the bibliophile reprint of the Zurich Edition of 1918 back in the world of Dickens and us but also refers to the locations of in our modern world. A timeless lesson, wonderfully illustrated now for Christmas. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is the English novelist of the 19th century.
His brilliant narrative technique contributed to his fame as well as his written views to the English conditions of his time. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) after art graduating worked as a reporter and Illustrator for a newspaper and later as a book Illustrator. “” He illustrated Peter Pan”and Alice in Wonderland” works like Ondine “and Grimm’s fairy tales and created a series of 34 color plates to Richard Wagner’s Rheingold. 1906 he was awarded at the world exhibition in Milan for his services with a gold medal. Charles Dickens: The Christmas Eve. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Reset after Zurich in 1918. From the English by Richard Zoozman. 2013 reprint Verlag Leipzig.