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A Dickens of a Christmas.(writer Charles Dickens)(THE HOME FORUM)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20071221
Author:Mason, Marilynne Scott

Byline: Marilynne Scott Mason

Charles Dickens, a consummate raconteur and arguably the greatest English-speaking storyteller after Shakespeare, knew how to seize his readers' imaginations and draw them headlong into his narratives. At this season of the year, I - like so many of my fellow Anglophiles - think of him as inevitably as I do of family and friends gathered together to celebrate that first, glorious Christmas.

In fact, as many have pointed out over the years, Dickens practically invented the way we celebrate Christmas in modern times. He certainly contributed to ...

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