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A Christmas Carol

In Our Time

Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas Past

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Dickens at that crossroads in his life was thinking about his own childhood. Scrooge is obsessed with money, he'd already farted four children and there was a fifth on the way. He was anxious about the falling cells, Martin Choswick,. There's a sense in which it's also self-examination - have I lost my way?

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