Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures

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Brighten the holiday season with five classic tales from the master of Christmastime fiction.

Charles Dickens's most famous holiday story is the 1843 publicationA Christmas Carol, but he was a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In the year following the release ofA Christmas Carol, Dickens releasedThe Chimes: A Christmas Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. This story combined his enduring sympathy for the poor with the notion that we must always strive to live in nobler ways. In 1845 cameThe Cricket on the Hearth, a novella that, in its time, surpassed evenA Christmas Carolin popularity for stage productions. The years 1846 and 1848 respectively broughtThe Battle of LifeandThe Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain. Given this wealth of Christmas-themed works, it is no wonder that Dickens is sometimesreferred to as the man who invented Christmas.

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Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens is one of the most popular literary authors of all time. After a very tumultuous childhood, Dickens finally succeeded in getting his first story in a London periodical. As the number of his published works increased, so did his fame. Although he died in 1870, Dickens works are some of the most famous written works in the English language.