Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Writin

Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own puddingDickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton' 'The Haunted Man' and shorter pieces some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates Christmas as a time of geniality charity and remembrance.Edited with an introduction by MICHAEL SLATER|Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter journalist & novelist. His novels include Great Expectations David Copperfield & Bleak House. Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck College London & a past President of the Dickens Fellowship & the Dickens Society of America.|'Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton'; 'The Haunted Man'; and shorter pieces some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates Christmas as a time of geniality charity and remembrance.Edited with an introduction by MICHAEL SLATER