The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickenss a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits Standiford LesPaperback

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world--now a major motion picture.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.The book immediately caused a sensation. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself.

It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all.With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.