A Christmas Carol was first published December 19, 1844. Charles Dickens, began writing in October of 1943 and finished it in six weeks.
Dickens took financial risk to get the book published, and was soon glad that he had. The book was an immediate bestseller across England. Six thousands copies were sold in the first week and three thousand were sold before New Year’s. A Christmas Carol has remained in print ever since.
The book’s title comes from Dicken’s desire to have the story associated with all the other popular Christmas carols of the time. He further the allusion by dividing the the book into staves (verses) instead of chapters.
The story tells of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation after he is visited by Jacob Marley, his former business partner, and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. -- Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D.
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