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As uplifting as the story of Scrooge itself, this is actually the tale of how Charles Dickens revived the signal vacation of the Western world. Just before Holiday in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens published a small e book he hoped would keep his lenders at bay. His publisher transformed it down, so Dickens used what little money he previously to place out A Holiday Carol himself. He bothered it might be the end of his profession as a novelist. The e book immediately brought on a sensation. And it breathed new life into any occasion that had dropped into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Trend. It had been a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of religious renewal, prepared to embrace a e book that finished with blessings for just one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Holiday cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back again to Victorian England, its most precious storyteller, and the labor and birth of the Holiday we realize best. The Man Who Invented Holiday is a wealthy and satisfying listen for Scrooges and sentimentalists similarly.