The impetus for A Christmas Carol
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks, to pay off his debt. The week it went on sale, in 1843, the book sold 6000 copies.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks, to pay off his debt. The week it went on sale, in 1843, the book sold 6000 copies.
Francisco Goldman’s smart & vivacious wife Aura died tragically last year. At TEV he recalls her possessive love for Bolaño.
A conversation about literary pilgrimages with my favorite Poe fan last week reminded me that I never told you about my visit to the Charles Dickens Museum in London. The delay is fortuitous, I guess, because really, what better time than now to talk about the house of The Man Who Invented Christmas? Dickens lived at 48 Doughty Street for . . .
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