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Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens
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Welcome to the Dickens Christmas Stories web site! 

This site was set up in 1999 to provide an on-line resource of Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens for a Sunday School Class and Damascus United Methodist Church in Damascus, MD.

A few interesting facts about Dickens and Christmas stories:

bulletA Christmas Carol was published in 1843
bulletIt was the the first of five "Christmas Books" by Dickens.
bulletHe wrote the story in just two months, beginning in October, 1843 and finishing at the end of November. The book was published on December 17, 1843 and immediately sold out.
bulletIts was followed by:
bulletThe Chimes (1844)
bulletThe Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
bulletThe Battle of Life (1846)
bulletThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).
bullet Dickens wrote several other Christmas stories, among them A Christmas Dinner in 1835; this was written under the pseudonym of Boz.
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