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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...

Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.” Bob’s voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty. His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and