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There is the warmest of Xmas fires in this hearth. It was reportedly written in just a matter of weeks as part of Dickens' journalistic result, to catch the Xmas deadline. Unlike his other seasonal stories, this isn't a supernatural tale but one of the perfect local arena with which Dickens was so obsessed throughout his writing. It really is all here: the warmth of home, the adoring little woman, the kids, the meals and the laughter. Everything that go to make an idealised Xmas are rolled into one very warming tale. The e book was an enormous commercial success and the best selling of all five of the Xmas books. First its sales doubled that of both The Chimes and A Xmas Carol. William Makepiece Thackeray described it as "illuminated with extra gas, filled with extra bonbons, French plums and sweetness"....
