Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his most popular ... gilt-edged pages and colored illustrations. But book sales weren’t enough to cover the costs of production, which had included ...

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the ... He died on Christmas Eve seven years before the book is set. He also believed that money was the most important thing in ...

Because Scrooge wants to cover that light ... hoard or the money's accumulated throughout A Christmas Carol. Really think to the start of the book, where Cratchit takes the shovel and he's ...