"A Christmas Carol is the most televised, filmed, recorded, radio-broadcast, animated, digitised, burlesqued and set-to-music work in Dickens's entire output (and almost certainly anyone else's), It is additionally by far the most often alluded to."

"Dickens chose A Christmas Carol for the first of his public readings, those bravura performances which so dominated his later career, kicking off in Birmingham on the day after Boxing Day of 1852.

"As a story, not only has A Christmas Carol never died, but it transcends national frontiers and artistic genres."  Dickens's story has inspired readings, movies, music, opera, strip cartoons, novels, plays.  There are annual performances by local theatre groups, puppet versions, T.V. films.  Dickens's characters live on in versions that the author could never have imagined.

~ Charles Dickens ~ A Celebration of his life and work by Charles Mosley.

December 1843 A Christmas Carol
December 1844 The Chimes
December 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth
December 1846 The Battle of Life
December 1848 The Haunted Man

1852 -66 The Christmas Stories

The Cricket on the Hearth

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