"All the books were adapted for the stage ... University and author of "Dickens, Death and Christmas" (Oxford University Press, 2023). "'The Carol' had a number of stagings," Patten said.

Mark Twain, a celebrated writer known for books such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was one of the few people who didn't love A Christmas Carol. Twain had a less than favorable review of ...

this Christmas-time, Consider well and bear in mind…" Like many things in life, the true story of the Enniscorthy Carol is a bit more complex. The tune on which it is based appears to be Celtic ...

Per the Oxford ... [the carol] out into the streets, wandering around and going from house to house singing so that everybody can hear it,” Adams says. Far from a funny term in a Christmas ...

Mr. Rosenblatt is an author of memoirs, novels and meditations, the most recent of which is “A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings.” Since its publication in December 1843, “A ...

Oxford. This carol is based on a poem by Christina Rossetti. It first appeared set to music in 1906 by Holst, but the 1911 setting by Harold Darke often leads the "BEST Christmas Carol" polls.