Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his most popular work.When it was initially published in December 1843, Dickens had been certain the book would sell well. However, his goals wasn’t ...

Charles Dickens was apparently under much financial pressure before writing the story, but when he was hit with a period of creativity, he was able to pen A Christmas Carol. 2. It was written as a ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

In the collection below, you’ll find heartwarming sayings from luminaries like Charles Dickens, author of “A Christmas Carol,” along with other notable figures including Dr. Seuss ...

Dickens’ famous “A Christmas Carol” was a rush job. According to Paulette Beete, he wrote the novella in the span of six weeks due to financial pressure. But it was a smashing success.

A copy of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” belonging to former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen during a preview of holiday decorations in the Library of the White House in ...

Their “Illustrated Edition of Dickens’s Christmas Carol” comes betimes with the first snow; and its beautiful pages will assuredly, and very speedily, be lit up by a ruddy glow from many a ...

Review: “Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again” (2.5 stars) When: Through Dec. 22 Where: The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave ...

Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth ...