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There's one extant copy of A Christmas Carol created by Dickens himself. It's owned by the Berg Collection of English and American literature at the New York Public Library (NYPL).
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold .
- Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
- 1843
A Christmas Carol wasn’t the first Christmas ghost story Dickens wrote. He’d already written ‘The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton’, featuring the miserly Gabriel Grub. This was featured as an inset tale in Dickens’s first ever published novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836-7).
Dec 13, 2016 · Published in December 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was an instant bestseller, followed by countless print, stage and screen productions. Victorians called it “a new gospel,” and...
Aug 1, 2024 · A Christmas Carol, short novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1843. The story, suddenly conceived and written in a few weeks, is one of the outstanding Christmas stories of modern literature. Through a series of spectral visions, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is allowed to review his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 19, 2022 · A Christmas Carol was followed by The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1848). The story recounts the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge’s spiritual transformation through four ghostly visitations.
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Mar 20, 2003 · It is not just the characters that make ‘A Christmas Carol‘ shine. Critics might point to a rather basic story arc, and yes you could claim that it is predictable or formulaic. But is the reason it appears so because we have become so familiar with the plot over time?
