SOURCE: “A Christmas Carol: Giving Nursery Tales a Higher Form,” in The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, edited by Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas, The Scarecrow Press, 1999, pp. 11–18.
In the following essay, Stone praises the stylistic framework of Dickens's novella, perceiving the story as “a myth or a fairy tale for our times, one that is still full of life and relevance.”
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