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A review by dawnlizreads
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
5.0
Well, there can be no doubt A Christmas Carol is the perfect Christmas story - teaching us to count our blessings and that we have a duty to try help those who are less fortunate (more important than ever give what's happened this year). I think it must be one of the few, or even only, story that can be read or adapted (into whatever form) multiple times and never get "old".
To be honest, I am not sure I will read all of the other stories in the book. I've only read the first couple of pages of this collection's other novella, The Haunted Man, and I am not particularly encouraged to continue - it seems overly "wordy" and long-winded. Hardly a surprise then that the story is not nearly as well known as Carol (search for "The Haunted Man" on Google and most of the responses are for an album by English singer Bat for Lashes).
But I don't actually care if the other stories turn out to be duds. A Christmas Carol alone makes this a book I will keep and treasure.
To be honest, I am not sure I will read all of the other stories in the book. I've only read the first couple of pages of this collection's other novella, The Haunted Man, and I am not particularly encouraged to continue - it seems overly "wordy" and long-winded. Hardly a surprise then that the story is not nearly as well known as Carol (search for "The Haunted Man" on Google and most of the responses are for an album by English singer Bat for Lashes).
But I don't actually care if the other stories turn out to be duds. A Christmas Carol alone makes this a book I will keep and treasure.