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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol: LitPlan Teacher Pack
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Author Biography

Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Birth Date: February 7, 1812
Death Date: 1870
Place of Birth: Port-sea, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist, journalist

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Biography of Charles John Huffam Dickens
17877 words, approx. 59.6 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
17117 words, approx. 57.1 pages
The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...
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Biography of Charles (John Huffam) Dickens
13529 words, approx. 45.1 pages
From the appearance of his first full-length work of prose fiction, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, in 1836-1837, Charles Dickens has retained his place as one of the best-loved and most widely read novelists in the world. Not so well known i...
 


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A Christmas Carol Summary
4,564 words, approx. 15 pages
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in 1812, in Portsea, England, as the second child of John Dickens, a middle-class naval clerk. At 11, Dickens had his formal education interrupted; his father was too debt-ridden to afford...
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A Christmas Carol Information
3,274 words, approx. 11 pages
<i>A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas</i> (commonly known as <i>A Christmas Carol</i>) is a novella by Charles Dickens<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by...


News and Journals
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AP Features
Theater where Lincoln was shot closes
6/1/2007: 259 words, approx. 1 pages
Ford's Theatre, the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, will be mostly off-limits for visitors for the next year and a half while it undergoes renovations.The theater in northwest Washington is slated to get an $8.5 million upgrade. The improvements include the theater's first elevator,...
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Today in history - Dec. 19
12/19/2006: 589 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2006. There are 12 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 19, 1843, "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.On this date:In 1777, Gen. George Washington led his army of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Fred Guida
30,289 words, approx. 101 pages
In the following excerpts, Guida considers the literary, political, and economic roots of Dickens's novella and traces the various cinematic adaptations of the story in the twentieth century.
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Critical Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn
24,665 words, approx. 82 pages
In the following introductory essay, Hearn places Dickens's novella within a literary, political, and historical context and recounts the circumstances surrounding the publication of the story as well as the critical reaction to it.
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Critical Essay by Robert L. Patten
19,110 words, approx. 64 pages
In the following essay, Patten examines the sudden conversion of Scrooge, contending that it is related to the surge in popularity of religious tracts during the 1840s.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Supernatural Worlds In "The Jungle Books" and "A Christmas Carol"
1,611 words, approx. 5 pages
The supernatural worlds in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Books" revolved around spirits that aren't human, but take on human characteristics. The authors uses their otherworldly charactersm ghosts in "A Christmas Carol" and spectral animals in "The Jungle Books," to observe the foibles and flaws in humankind.
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Essay Grade: 96%
A Review of "A Christmas Carol"
996 words, approx. 3 pages
A review of Charles Dickens's literary classic, "A Christmas Carol."
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Essay Grade: 88%
Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol
963 words, approx. 3 pages
A short biography of Charles Dickens, probably the most notable of all nineteenth-century English writers, along with an analysis of his story A Christmas Carol. Although A Christmas Carol seems to end as a lighthearted tale of spirit and generosity, the events leading up to this "happy ending" can be construed as a warning of things to come.
 


A Christmas Carol Study Pack

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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