A Christmas Carol
Fairy tales, ‘Last Christmas,’ Mariah Carey festive staples
The holiday season brings together two favorite habits: reading traditional fairy tales and listening to Christmas carols from the golden age of pop music.
Lost Portrait of Charles Dickens Found in a Junk Sale in South Africa
A portrait of Charles Dickens that had been lost for 174 years has been found in a box of trinkets in South Africa, reported standard.co.uk
The portrait shows the famous Victorian writer at the age of 31, and was painted by artist and social campaigner Margaret Gillies in 1843, during the same weeks that Dickens was writing his festive classic A Christmas Carol.
Greece takes dig at lenders with Scrooge Christmas card
Greece's Finance Ministry took a page out of Charles Dickens's classic "A Christmas Carol" to have a dig on Friday at the international lenders who have imposed unpopular austerity on the country.