The Seven Poor Travellers

Charles Dickens, who published “A Christmas Carol in Prose” in 1843 about the old, gloomy miser Ebenezer Scrooge, is commonly considered the founder of the Christmas story genre on a worldwide literary scale. Traditional Christmas (or holiday season) stories have a bright, joyful ending, and good always triumphs. So too is Scrooge, who loves only his money—after meeting spirits, he changes his views. In the following years, Dickens continued writing such stories, often as co-authored works, publishing them at the end of the year in his own magazines. Ardís Audio Studio presents a collection of Christmas stories, “The Story of Seven Poor Wayfarers” (1854), which includes tales by Dickens himself as well as those by his contemporaries— including a story by Wilkie Collins, known to classic-detective lovers under the title “The Stolen Letter.”