Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol

Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience.
A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Christmas classic featuring a selection of recipes for your holiday table from Giada de Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and Trisha Yearwood!
Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. Plan your perfect Christmas feast with a carefully curated menu of holiday dishes, from succulent baked ham to smashed root vegetables. And top it all off with fruitcake cookies and pecan pie. Celebrate the holiday with a good meal and a good book!
Book includes full, unabridged text of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, interspersed with recipes, food photography, and special food artwork.

Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836-37) he achieved immediate fame. In a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855-57), which reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-61), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) complete his major works.