A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843, proved a huge success for its author Charles Dickens. Dickens deeply sympathised with the plight of the poor and less fortunate which drove his desire to see real societal change, and served as inspiration for the same change of heart seen in the book’s protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge. The massive popularity of A Christmas Carol drove Dickens to produce four more short festive books, with the final book, The Haunted Man, published in 1848. In many ways Di

The story of "A Christmas Carol"