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 ...

“Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books ... in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we all appreciate a protagonist ...

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 ...