Explanation

After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.

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quotes (5)
Language

English

ISBN

9780140439052

Number of pages

336

Publisher

Penguin

Category

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.