Dickens's Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens wrote a christmas carol to raise awareness of poverty. The book was an instant best seller, but he didn't make nearly as much money with it as he hoped. It also popularized the genre of ghost stories and is credited with popularizing merry Christmases.

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