How Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” helped reinvent Books & Books’ Mitchell Kaplan

Posted on by Maria Gil Posted in Bylines, Miami Herald

There is probably no holiday tale told more famously than Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

Ebenezer Scrooge, the rich and crotchety miser who transforms into a grandfatherly soul after seeing where his life is going, has been a symbol of the holiday spirit for centuries, along with Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley and the other classic characters from the British story.

Yet Dickens’ novella, considered among literature’s greatest works, almost never came to pass.

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