The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BQLD64
Publish date: November 4th 2008
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Biography Memoir,
Holiday,
Christmas
Dickens can more accurately be called the man who reinvented Christmas. The focus is the books is, of course, on Dickens's most beloved work and its phenomenal cultural impact but there is also a good deal of fascinating biographical information on Dickens, cultural history, British publishing and b...
The literary history of Charles Dickens's books and influence on the holiday seasons. The book discusses Dickens role in the publishing of all his books, and how his holiday ghost tale, A Christmas Carol, effected many in Europe and America. This is a worthwhile read if you like Dickens.Most interes...
A fine post-prandial choice. Just the thing to come after the turkey, and help me get into the Christmas mood. Standiford covers a lot of territory I've already been over in other books, fluffing up a magazine piece to a respectable book size. But the specifics of Dickens' life when he wrote Carol w...
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