A review by panger97
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens

4.0

I read the Penguins Classics 2003 Paperback print edition. Overall, while I don't think all the stories were that interesting, its certainly fascinating to learn about the different Christmas works that Dickens had in general. I bought this to re-read A Christmas Carol, which we all know the story of, but of the eight stories presented here, I found a few other interesting stories otherwise. In particular, I also enjoyed reading the other longer story in this called The Haunted Man. This particular story is about a man who decides to asks a spirit to allow him to forget painful memories, but he is cursed to also pass on some of the pain, at least as far as I understood it.

The prose can be a bit tricky to follow, so some of the stories I found I didn't FULLY get, but I'll probably re-read them separately at some point.

Definitely recommend this collection.