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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.From Katherine Kroeber Wiley's Introduction to *A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth*"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that." Thus begins Dickens's most famous and yet poorly understood work. It does not start with a description of Scrooge as a miser, but with death. All of Dickens's Christmas books revolve around death. Americans and Europeans of the twenty-first century are fairly sheltered from death—it seldom happens in our homes, for instance; we can bring people back from the brink of death in ways inconceivable to Victorians; we have powerful drugs to ease the pain of, say, cancer, and so forth. In Dickens's day, one could die from an infected cut; today we simply slap on some antibiotic ointment and feel confident we'll be all right. Death was very present and very haunting to the Victorians. Children and women were particularly vulnerable; we may find some of the sentiment over Tiny Tim cloying, but through him Dickens strove to present the special poignancy of the deaths of children. Having started with Marley's death, and Scrooge's full knowledge and experience

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Author

Dickens, Charles

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Books/Fine Creative Media

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593080334

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.11 / 5 (49,447 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14