Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” was an important book of the 19th century. It spoke to the power of redemption and can be credited for focusing concern for the poor during Christmas season.

1. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” 4. "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty ...

Within months (and irrespective of the season), at least 12 separate stage versions were running in London alone. From 1858 until his death, Dickens himself gave annual public readings of A Christmas ...

In A Christmas Carol's five staves, or chapters, we find prose from 1843 England that feels eerily familiar to 2016 Dallas. Opinion Get smart opinions on the topics North Texans care about.

As ‘A Christmas Carol’ reaches its 175th anniversary, the author’s great-great-great granddaughter tells Adam Lusher that the story was a call for compassion in the depths of near-unbridled ...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol still helping poverty-stricken pupils 180 years on MOVED by the plight of children so “ragged, wretched, filthy and forlorn” that even a church would turn ...

The real-life inspiration for Tiny Tim had a much sadder fate. Dickens’s frustration about poverty in Great Britain led to a classic, writes Lucinda Hawksley. In May 1843, Charles Dickens was ...

Voices London is living a modern day Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens' warnings about poverty are as relevant today as in 1843, when his classic Christmas novel was first published ...

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About poverty, here is what my friend Paul e-mailed to me yesterday: It seems that sometimes less is more. There was a lion that could produce only one baby in seven years. When the pig came to vi ...