THE narrow space within which it was necessary to confine these Christmas Stories when they were originally published, rendered their construction a matter of some difficulty, and almost necessitated what is peculiar in their machinery. I could not attempt great elaboration of detail, in the working out of character within such limits. My chief purpose was, in a whimsical kind of masque which the good humour of the season justified, to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land.
C. D.
*Note: A download may not start for up to 60 seconds.
*Note: It may take up to 60 seconds for for the email to be generated.
Chicago: Charles Dickens, "Preface to Dicken’s Christmas Stories," A Christmas Carol Original Sources, accessed June 16, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RCMWGA43BSR34KU.
MLA: Dickens, Charles. "Preface to Dicken’s Christmas Stories." A Christmas Carol, Original Sources. 16 Jun. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RCMWGA43BSR34KU.
Harvard: Dickens, C, 'Preface to Dicken’s Christmas Stories' in A Christmas Carol. Original Sources, retrieved 16 June 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RCMWGA43BSR34KU.