Classics like "A Christmas Carol," books abundant in stunning artwork, such as "Christmas in Hogwarts," and romantic tales with a holiday backdrop, like "Window Shopping," are all among those ...

Looking for something to read in between the barbecues and fireworks? Try this mix of novels, short stories, poetry and more.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, originally written in 1843. The story centers on a mean and selfish old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge. A ...

Technically, the story is officially "A Chrismas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas." Dickens wrote the book in just six weeks, according to the National Endowment for the Arts.

There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” and there is no book about Christmas that can be counted ...

Sometime later, Mr. Flood submitted the song to the editors of The Oxford Book of Carols, the gold-standard repository of Christmas songs, which published it in 1928; the same year Mr. Flood died.

It’s a fun premise, though unevenly executed: Dickens must perform his 171st annual reading of “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s sick of it.

Johnson's eyes eventually stumbled upon a Christmas carol book published in 1985. Many of the carols Johnson found in the book, such as "Away in the Manger," are still sung to this day, but the ...