The Carol Philosophy

Dickens' hope that the Christmas spirit be lived throughout the year. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Everyone
knows a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens's classic, written in eighteen
forty three, but what you may not be aware of
is the series of books that Dickens called the Carrol
Philosophy Christmas story books that followed a Christmas Carol. Back then,
the books sold well, but they haven't enjoyed the popularity
of A Christmas Carol. Dickens Christmas books, The Chimes, the
Cricket and the Carrol were very much a part of

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Dickens's public reading tours, including ones in Boston here in
the US back in the eighteen fifties and sixties. His
last Christmas book published was called The Haunted Man. Dickens.
A Christmas Carol is so well known, but it might
be fun to delve a little bit deeper into the
series of Christmas books that followed. Like the big bestseller
of the Christmas Carol, all of these Dickens Christmas theme
stories provided social commentary about the plight of the poor

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in England and connected with readers both wealthy and poor.
If you'd like to know more, there's a very informative
and helpful website Charles Dickens page dot com. And that's
the book Club. WZ Boston's news radio Time