- John Leech provided eight illustrations, four woodcuts and four hand colored etchings, for the first edition of A Christmas Carol published in December 1843. This image, Mr. Fezziwig's Ball, appeared as the the frontpiece for that edition. See more illustrations here.
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- The full title is: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
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- A Christmas Carol was the subject of Dickens' first ever public reading, given in Birmingham Town Hall to the Industrial and Literary Institute on 27 December 1852.
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- A Christmas Carol has been made into about a million different adaptations, from musicals, movies, radio shows and TV shows. For a complete list (almost!), go here.
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- A Christmas Carol was immediately very popular, though at the time it was published it created a great religious controversy! The story's lack of babes, wise men, stars, mangers and other icons of the Christian nativity inspired a multitude of sermons and pamphlets at that time.
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