Five books to get you in the festive mood over the Christmas holidays
So here are five books to get you in the festive mood.
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So here are five books to get you in the festive mood.
For me, it will begin like every other day – with a zing. I’ll swim in the North Sea, as the sun rises, with my band of salt-water junkies
In 1843, 31-year-old English author and journalist Charles Dickens, a prodigy who had already gained fame and acclaim with “The Pickwick Papers,” and “Oliver Twist,” would write his holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” in just six weeks.
The New York of Charles Dickens’s first visit remains recognizable. It is still, as Dickens observed, “a great emporium of commerce” and a “place of general resort.”
Dickens had a knack for expertly portraying human diseases.