Christmas Carol Collins Classroom Classics

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJEC
Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature
Next exam: June 2026
This edition of A Christmas Carol is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.
'If I could work my will,' said Scrooge, indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
Miser and misanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge hates the festive season. Can the visitations of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come shake him from his habits, to show him the true value of Christmas?
Dickens's 1843 story was written in response to the plight of the poor, the hungry, the exploited and the uneducated in Victorian society, suggesting that the true test of a society is the way it treats its children.

About the author

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

Summary

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJEC Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature Next exam: June 2026

Product details

• Authors: Charles Dickens, Collins GCSE
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.01.2019
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age
• EAN: 9780008325961
• ISBN: 978-0-00-832596-1
• Pages: 128
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 16
• Dimensions (packing): 11 x 17.7 x 1 cm
• Series: Collins Classroom Classics; Collins Classroom Classics
• Subjects: Englisch; Lektüre, Charles Dickens, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, English, A Christmas Carol, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Interest age: from c 14 years, STUDY AIDS / Book Notes, For secondary education, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), For National Curriculum Key Stage 4 & Gcse, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Literature, books & writers (Children's/Teenage), School editions of English literature fiction texts, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, 2026, For National Curriculum Key Stage 4 and GCSE (England and Wales), collins classics, aqa gcse english literature 9-1, GCSE set texts, gcse english 9-1, gcse english literature 9-1, eduqas gcse english literature 9-1, edexcel gcse english literature 9-1, a christmas carol revision, 19th century set texts, GCSE 9–1 English Literature AQA Edexcel WJEC EDUQAS 2026