Author Information
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. In 1824, Dickens lived in London and was sent by his family to work in a blacking factory while his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Circumstances improved, and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first fictional work was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing and completed fourteen highly successful novels, including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and Bleak House, as well as journalistic works, shorter fiction, and travel books. He died in 1870.

Blurb
When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843, it was an immediate success. A celebration of Christmas, a story of.