A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings: Charles Dickens

`Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding`

Dickens`s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens`s other Christmas writings collected here include `The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton`; `The Haunted Man`; and shorter pieces, some drawn from the `Christmas Stories` that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates Christmas as a time of geniality, charity and remembrance.