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Dickens charming stories have a timeless quality that have been revered through time regardless of what century or season they ... Read More
For those already familiar with the carol, the other stories will offer more insight to dickens' writings.
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Charles dickens a christmas carol and other christmas writings is a wonderful collection of christmas renderings previously published in various charles dickens collections
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However the other stories included in this volume are a delight to read and show blueprints to the carol as well as after thoughts such as the story of the goblins who stole a sexton and the haunted man and the ghosts bargain
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The latter stories in the book exemplify his intentions a christmas tree what christmas is as we grow older and the seven poor travellers
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As michael slater of the university of london points out in a perceptive foreword dickens associated his writings about christmas with the importance of memory including the remembrance of loss additionally dickens achieved the neat trick of linking the holiday with christian ideals of charity while avoiding any overt expressions of religious ideology that could be mistaken for sectarianism
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What makes this edition of “a christmas carol” a particularly good present for any thoughtful reader and god bless us every one is the way in which this edition situates “a christmas carol” within the larger context of dickens’s writings about christmas generally
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The presence of these other writings reminds one that “a christmas carol” was neither the first nor the last time that charles dickens wrote about the christmas holiday
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The story that follows “the story of the goblins who stole a sexton” is one that you may already have if you are a dickens fan who owns a copy of dickens’s first novel “the pickwick papers” 1837 in which the story appears as chapter 28
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In its depiction of a meanspirited sexton named gabriel grub good dickensian name that whose abduction by goblins late one christmas eve results in dramatic changes to his life and character one sees a foreshadowing of the basic plotline of “a christmas carol
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