Spiritual Values in Charles Dickens’s Holiday Stories

by Angelica Werth • Art & Culture • Dec 23, 2024

Charles Dickens wrote a variety of novellas and short stories related to Christmas and New Year’s, many with a supernatural element. Though the plots differ, there are some themes that are common among them. In this article, I’ll deal with three such stories and highlight ideas that occur to some degree in all three.

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