Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Globe Theater "A Christmas Carol ( Lionel Barrymore)" 12-23-47

A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of
Christmas) is Charles
Dickens' "little Christmas Book" first
published on December 19, 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The story met with instant success, selling six thousand
copies within a week. Originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become
one of the most popular and enduring Christmas
stories of all time. In fact, contemporaries of the time noted that the
popularity of the story played a critical role in redefining the importance of
Christmas and the major sentiments associated with the holiday. Few modern
readers realize that A Christmas Carol was written during a time of
decline in the old Christmas traditions. "If Christmas, with its ancient
and hospitable customs, its social and charitable observances, were in danger
of decay, this is the book that would give them a new lease," said English
poet Thomas Hood in his review in Hood's
Magazine and Comic Review (January
1844, page 68).

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