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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Description: ISBN 140620990 / Author: Charles Dickens / Genre: Fiction / A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known ... more

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ... as A Christmas Carol ) is what Charles Dickens described as his little Christmas Book and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. The story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week and, although originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.

Newest Review: ... Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, but I just found them, basically, a bit too boring. A ... more

... Christmas Carol appealed a bit more because it was only a mere seventy pages of length. The others I’d read had stretched into 300 pages, and I found them long-winded and overly descriptive. I felt perhaps that maybe with fewer pages it would be less long-winded, less descriptive and more enjoyable. I didn’t really feel that, though after reading it. Many are a fan of Dickens’ work, but I don’t see the appeal at all. I find him tiresome and I find his descri...more

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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens: "Bah, Hambug!" (1495 words)
by Matt_Roberts - written on 10.05.04 (Very useful, 1240 readings)
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“Bah Humbug!” has become a famous catchphrase. Scrooge has become famous as well. If you’re tight-fisted or if you’re a bit of a party pooper you’re jokingly nicknamed Scrooge. Well, where did the two famous sayings come from? Well, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol of course. One of Dickens’ most loved novels holds these two famous sayings and is as famous today as it was back then. Even though A Christmas Carol is one Dickens’ most famous works it hasn’t be read as much as his other classics. In a recent survey (on the web) out of all of ...

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