Today we celebrate Dickens A Christmas Carol , first published on December 19, 1843. Illustrated by John Leech, it was the first of Dickens’s Christmas stories, instantly successful, selling over 6,000 copies in a week. It also stimulated a revival of the Christmas traditions that we associate with Victorian England, many of which we still practice [...]
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Dickens ~ “A Christmas Carol”
Posted in Antiquarian Books, Authors, Book History, tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories, English Literature, Victorian England on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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