Were printed and distributed to the trade in early 1844.
A second and third edition of an additional 3,000 copies Indeed, the firstĮdition of the Carolsold briskly, despite the rather steep Reading public, who had apparently turned their up their collective noses atĬhuzzlewit, did no such thing with Dickens's latest effort. The publishers, Chapman and Hall, must have been sure of its successīecause they issued the first edition in 6,000 copies. The official date of publication of A Christmas Carolwasġ9 December 1843. Thomas Carlyle, and his close friend and financial Pre-publication days of December 17 and 18 to, among others, Presented at least a dozen copies of the Carolon the London in December, we can assume that their walk was a pleasant one, indeed. That he wrote a short letter to his friend Daniel Maclise, inviting him to join him in a Dickens was so very much pleased with the book The 'Little Carol', as Dickens called his book, was finally finished and had appeared Little-known novel on which Dickens had pinned his hopes for financial security. A Christmas Carol wasĭestined to become Dickens's best known and best loved work, in contrast to the now The nineteen-month serialized picaresque novel The Life and Adventures He was writing it during short breaks of working on his current major project, This small book, only 166 pages, had occupied Dickens's mind for the past two Which he called A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
The reason for this positive outlook on life was that thirty-one-year-old Mr.ĭickens had taken delivery of the pre-publication copies of his latest literary effort, Charles Dickens, residing at Devonshire Terrace in London, was in excellent The day was Sunday, and the date was 17 December in the year of our Lordġ843. Who have gazed thoughtfully but kindly on human life, and have pierced deeper than theirįellows into all the sunny nooks and dark recesses of the human breast. Says a competent English critic, but more wisdom wisdom of that kind which men possess The limnings which have proceeded from its author's pen. 'Christmas Carol' is the most striking, the most picturesque, the most truthful, of all Indeed, we can with truth say, that in our deliberate judgment, the With the utmost cheerfulness pass them by unnoted and uncondemned, if he would only nowĪnd then present us with an intellectual creation so touching and beautiful as the oneīefore us. Peculiarities, or broad caricatures of our actual vanities, or other follies, we could Press he should find occasion to indulge in ridicule against alleged American
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