Nearly 170 years after Charles Dickens first published ‘A Christmas Carol’, a Tennessee doctor offered a detailed explanation for what exactly may have been ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and charitable concern for the poor.

Desperate for money, the author penned the classic holiday tale in unusually fast fashion only for it to sell out within a ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

The literary significance of "A Christmas Carol" by no means impedes the fun provided by the tale. As Wilson wrote, "A ...

As we grow older, the world seems to divide more easily and, yes, more violently. Differences harden. Words become weapons.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is available to stream in the UK on Disney+.

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and ...

‘It makes me feel very proud, it’s lovely. And it also makes me think, wow, my best thing was the very first thing I made!’ ...

Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with ...