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. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance.Īfter 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. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. Dickens' other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works.
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