Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens, Th The

No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than Charles Dickens. Collected here are twenty-three short works, some on the theme of Christmas, from «A Christmas Dinner» (1835) to «What Christmas Is As We Grow Older» to others that simply explore the function of kindness and goodwill in society, as in one of his last works, «No Thoroughfare» (1867). Read and reread these heartwarming classics every holiday season.