Why dickens wrote a christmas carol : Fancy and Fact. From: World and I | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Timko, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2001 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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For most of us the Christmas season and Charles Dickens, arguably the most famous novelist of all time, are synonymous: A Christmas Carol, the story he wrote as a potboiler to compensate for the money he was losing on Martin Chuzzlewit, the novel he was then publishing in monthly installments, has come to be a full-fledged industry. According to Paul Davis, it has turned from "text into culture-text" (The Life and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge). ...