NEW YORK — To hear Philip Palmer, the literary curator at the Morgan Library & Museum tell it, the story behind the writing of "A Christmas Carol" sounds, well, like something out of Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the ...

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 Chimes," ...

Author Charles Dickens is widely claimed to have "reinvented and reinvigorated" Christmas when he published A Christmas Carol in 1843. It tells the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is ...

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” (written in ...

LONDON — Marley was dead, to begin with, and 180 years later "A Christmas Carol" has transformed the holiday we celebrate this week. Originally published in 1843, Charles Dickens' novel of a bitter, ...

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