The man who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens'S a Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits [Audiobook] download free by Les Standiford
- Listen audiobook: The man who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens'S a Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits
- Author: Les Standiford
- Release date: 2017/9/2
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780307405791
- Rating: 8.92 of 10
- Votes: 568
- Review by: Rylee Bagley
- Review rating: 9.11 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 3H9M58S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, Vorbis, AIFF, WAV (compression DMG, RAR, CBZ, RPM, ZIP, 7-ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M4S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Christian Worship, Rites & Ceremonies, Biography: Literary, Literary Studies: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.00 USD
- Dimensions: 145x193x20.32mm
- Weight: 226.8g
- Printed by: Random House Inc
- Published in: New York, United States
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