The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008)
All five of Dickens’s Christmas Books in one volume, with notes.
Dickens followed the Carol with four more Christmas Books; read them together and you see what he was trying to repeat.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete text of A Christmas Carol, the first of the five.
Changes: nothing in the story. The volume adds The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s introduction and notes.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, and then the people of four more Christmas stories.
How much time does it ask?
496 pages in Oxford World’s Classics paperback. The Carol is the first and shortest stretch of it.
Oxford World’s Classics, 15 July 2008, 496 pages: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004) · A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition (2016)