![]() This heavily revised sixty-six-page draft-the only manuscript of the story-was sent to the printer in order for the book to be published on 19 December, just in time for the Christmas market. Deleted text is struck out with a cursive and continuous looping movement of the pen and replaced with more active verbs-to achieve greater vividness or immediacy of effect- and fewer words for concision. THE ANNOTATED CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Christmas Carol in Prose Charles Dickens, Michael Patrick Hearn, illus. In terms of understanding A Christmas Carol, Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose (New York, London: W.W. The pace of writing and revision, apparently contiguous, is urgent, rapid, and boldly confident. The original manuscript of A Christmas Carol reveals Dickens's method of composition, allowing us to see the author at work. Dickens presented the bound manuscript to Mitton, his close friend and creditor, possibly as a Christmas gift, and most probably in gratitude for the generous loan of £270 in the preceding six months.Ĭompelled by personal financial difficulties, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in only six weeks, during a period of intense creativity in fall 1843. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The binding is elegantly decorated in gilt, and the name "Thomas Mitton Esqre" is stamped in gilt on the front cover. When the manuscript of A Christmas Carol was returned by the printer, Dickens sent it to a bookbinder (possibly Thomas Robert Eeles of Cursitor Street, London), who bound it in crimson morocco, a handsome, durable goatskin leather. ![]()
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