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With\u00a0A Christmas Carol<\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0Charles Dickens created a modern fairy tale and shaped our ideas of Christmas. The tale of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of the season by a series of ghostly visitors and given a second chance, was conjured up by Dickens during one of his London night walks, who ‘wept and laughed’ as he composed it. Taken to readers’ hearts for its humor, compassion and message of redemption, it remains his best-loved book.<\/p>\n

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