![]() ![]() This volume also collects "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," an early sketch that was Dickenss model for "A Christmas Carol." And it includes another fifteen stories, three written in collaboration with Wilkie Collins, and all published in the Christmas issues of the two magazines Dickens edited between 18, Household Words and All the Year Round. Through these immensely popular tales Dickenss name became synonymous, in the minds of his audience, with the warm tidings of the Christmas season. In addition to the title tale-one of Dickenss best-known works and a beloved classic of nineteenth century literature-it includes "The Chimes," "A Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man"-stories that Dickens hoped would, as he wrote, "awaken some loving an forebearing thoughts" in his readers. ![]() ![]() A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics brings together all five Christmas books that Charles Dickens wrote between 18. ![]()
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