The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307405791ISBN-10:307405796UPC:9780307405791Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, ReligionBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HolidaysBook Topic:Christmas & AdventSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCCVGNN2KX
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world--now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307405791ISBN-10:307405796UPC:9780307405791Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, ReligionBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HolidaysBook Topic:Christmas & AdventSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SCCVGNN2KX
Les Standiford is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels as well as several works of nonfiction including Last Train to Paradise, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Meet You in Hell, and Washington Burning. He has received the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is founding director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and was appointed holder of the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. He lives in Pinecrest, Florida, with his wife and three children.
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