The Essential Christmas Classics Collection (Boxed Set)
A Christmas Carol; The Nutcracker; Twelve Classics of Christmas
Published on 7. October 2025
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-6659-7780-7 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrate the holidays with this collection of Christmas classics, including A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and a collection of holiday short stories-together in one hardcover boxed set!
Celebrate the season with this collection of popular holiday stories from Christmases past. This set includes E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker, the story of a girl's Christmas gift coming to life and battling the sinister mouse king, which later inspired Tchaikovsky's popular holiday ballet. Next is A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens's renowned novella about the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge being confronted with his greed and learning the meaning of Christmas.
Rounding out the set is The Twelve Classics of Christmas, a collection of twelve holiday short stories. From favorites like Clement C. Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" to lesser-known tales from beloved authors like Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Brothers Grimm, this anthology is the perfect way to count down to Christmas.
This festive hardcover boxed set includes:
A Christmas Carol
The Nutcracker
The Twelve Classics of Christmas
Celebrate the season with this collection of popular holiday stories from Christmases past. This set includes E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker, the story of a girl's Christmas gift coming to life and battling the sinister mouse king, which later inspired Tchaikovsky's popular holiday ballet. Next is A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens's renowned novella about the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge being confronted with his greed and learning the meaning of Christmas.
Rounding out the set is The Twelve Classics of Christmas, a collection of twelve holiday short stories. From favorites like Clement C. Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" to lesser-known tales from beloved authors like Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Brothers Grimm, this anthology is the perfect way to count down to Christmas.
This festive hardcover boxed set includes:
A Christmas Carol
The Nutcracker
The Twelve Classics of Christmas
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Series
Edition
Boxed Set
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Third Grade and over, Interest Age: From 8 to 99 years
Edition type
Combined volume
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
f-c matte aqueous box w- no sfx: books: f-c soft-touch matte lam jacket on metallic stock w- emboss and spot uv
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 49 mm
Weight
762 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6659-7780-7 (9781665977807)
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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833, he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a writer, composer, and painter. Born in Prussia, he served as a law officer until Napoleon's invasion, after which he settled in Germany and turned his attention to the arts. He is best remembered for his writings of Romanticism and Gothic Horror, and for his novella originally titled Nutcracker and Mouse King, which later inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet.
A Simon & Schuster author.
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a writer, composer, and painter. Born in Prussia, he served as a law officer until Napoleon's invasion, after which he settled in Germany and turned his attention to the arts. He is best remembered for his writings of Romanticism and Gothic Horror, and for his novella originally titled Nutcracker and Mouse King, which later inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet.
A Simon & Schuster author.