DICKENS AND CHRISTMAS (PB)

An exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today - and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically to "strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man's child", and it began the Victorians' obsession with Christmas. This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickens's most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas.