Book 2008
The man who invented Christmas
- Publisher
- Broadway Paperbacks
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- History
- History and criticism
- Christmas in literature
- English Christmas stories
- Christmas
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.