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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
- Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
- 1843
Nov 13, 2009 · On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens ’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published. Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay...
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Sep 12, 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.
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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...
- Did you know… A Christmas Carol was just one of several Christmas-themed stories written by Charles Dickens. The novella’s full title is A Christmas Carol.
- Did you know… Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks, under financial pressure. Reportedly Dickens wrote the story while taking hours-long nighttime walks around London.
- Did you know… A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By 1844, the novella had gone through 13 printings and continues to be a robust seller more than 175 years later.
- Did you know… Dickens didn't make very much money from early editions of A Christmas Carol. Though it was a runaway best seller, Dickens was very fastidious about the endpapers and how the book was bound, and the price of materials took a big chunk out of his potential profits.
Dec 12, 2021 · But where did A Christmas Carol begin for Charles Dickens? The answer seems to be a report from the Children’s Employment Commission, published in February 1843. On 6 March Dickens offered to write a pamphlet before year’s end ‘on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child’.
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Nov 30, 2022 · After it was first published on 19 December 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol quickly became a Victorian Christmas-time hit, with all 6,000 copies selling out in a week, and more than 15,000 selling by the end of the following year.
