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How Charles Dickens redeemed the spirit of Christmas

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imageThe title page from the first edition of A Christmas CarolJohn Leech via Wikimedia Commons

Though today regarded as the literary titan of the Victorian age, in late 1843 the 31-year-old Charles Dickens worried that his popularity was fading. His latest novel was not selling well, his finances were strained and his wife was pregnant with their fifth...

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