Dickens’ Christmas Stories

Christmas and Dickens are almost synonymous. The one suggests the other, for Charles Dickens is essentially the laureate of the Yuletide, the true spirit of which he did much to revive. His own writings, jovial, merry and sympathetic, depict the Christmas spirit as no one else has ever been able to do. The secret of his wonderful popularity in found in his blending of humor and pathos and his appreciation of speaks, and nowhere is his matchless art as brilliant as in his Christmas stories, which will last as long as Christmas is celebrated by English speaking people. Dickens’ Christmas Stories, (with an active table of contents), includes:Novels:A Christmas CarolThe ChimesThe Cricket on the HearthThe Battle of LifeThe Haunted Man and the Ghost’s BargainShort Stories:A Christmas TreeWhat Christmas is as we Grow OlderThe Child’s StoryThe Schoolboy’s StoryNobody’s StoryThe Poor Relation’s StoryThe Seven Poor TravellersThe Holly-TreeWreck of the Golden Mary Going into SocietyA Message from the SeaTom Tiddler’s GroundSomebody’s LuggageMrs. Lirriper’s LodgingsMrs. Lirriper’s LegacyDoctor MarigoldMugby JunctionThree Ghost Stories

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