In the preface to his novella A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that he “endeavor[ed] in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea” for his readers. “May it haunt their ...

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 ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829 ... According to Ann Ball in her book, HANDBOOK OF CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS: The two turtle doves were ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Christmas in the Cotswolds used to be a quiet affair. Early communion, waved greetings from across a field or two ...

Find out more at the Young Reporter website. A Christmas Carol, the renowned novel by Charles Dickens, is truly the perfect winter tale. Including themes of charity, kindness and empathy ...

Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man visited by the spirits of ...

Prince George was feeling the festive spirit at his mom Kate Middleton’s annual “Together at Christmas” carol service. The second-in-line for the throne, 11, was all smiles as he listened to ...