ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks, under financial pressure. Reportedly Dickens wrote the story while taking hours-long nighttime walks around London. Did you know… A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks, under financial pressure. Reportedly Dickens wrote the story while taking hours-long nighttime walks around London. Did you know… A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. A Christmas Carol. In Prose.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aside from boosting people’s awareness of the plight of the poor in Victorian England, though, Dickens also had a more immediate need: cash. He’d spent too much on his 1842 American tour, Golden writes, and he needed to support his large family. “Thinking creatively, he wrote himself out of his dilemma, ” she reports.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Impact of ‘A Christmas Carol’ The book was immediately popular with the public, becoming perhaps the most famous literary work associated with Christmas. It elevated the popularity of Christmas, which wasn’t the major holiday we know, and established the idea of Christmas charity toward those less fortunate.