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At a time when "Merry Christmas" is being supplanted by a more vague "Happy Holidays," and the season gives way to coarse behavior and unchecked materialism, A Christmas Carol is the perfect guidebook to put things into perspective. This short novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1843 and conceived and written in a few weeks, is perhaps the outstanding Christmas myth of modern...

After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Stop! There was first a game at blind-man’s buff. Of course there was. And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots. My opinion is, that it was a done thing between him and Scrooge’s nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker,