A Christmas Carol (Special Edition)

written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt,[2] the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time. In fact, contemporaries noted that the story's popularity played a critical role in redefining the importance of Christmas and the major sentiments associated with the holiday. Few modern readers realize that A Christmas Carol was written during a time of decline in the old Christmas traditions.