A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens, who published in 1843 “A Christmas Carol in Prose” about the old, gloomy miser Ebenezer Scrooge, is generally considered the founder of the Christmas story genre on a worldwide scale. Traditional Christmas (or “seasonal”) tales have a bright, joyful ending, and good always triumphs. In the following years, Dickens continued to write such stories, often co-authored, publishing them at the end of the year in journals he produced himself.