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 ...

In the preface to his novella A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that he “endeavor[ed] in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea” for his readers. “May it haunt their ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a fun premise, though unevenly executed: Dickens must perform his 171st annual reading of “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s sick of it.

Robert Eggers' love for theatrical, atmospheric period pieces makes him a great choice to take A Christmas Carol in more of a horror direction.

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 ...