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A Christmas Carol

In Our Time

Dickens' Loneliness as a Child

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Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory as a child. He felt neglected by his macabre father figure and turned to books for solace. It's important that the book is set in midwinter, when ghost stories are popular. With Christmas Day comes the turning of the year - light will return.

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