书名：A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories 

作者：Charles Dickens 

出版社名称：Signet 

出版时间：2011 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780451532022 

商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.4 x 17.1 cm 

包装：平装

页数：224（以实物为准）

从1843年到1848年间，狄更斯几乎在每年圣诞节都发表一个与节日有关的中篇小说，其中《圣诞颂歌》具有极为特殊的地位。

在《圣诞颂歌》出版的维多利亚时代，圣诞节并不为很多英国人所知。然而，书中的情节和人物在西方家喻户晓后，故事中的一些情节成了圣诞节的约定风俗，诸如家庭团聚、互换礼物、圣诞餐饮,维多利亚女王也读过这部小说。一百多年来积聚的“人气”使其成为狄更斯的小说中极为深入人心的一部作品。

文学评论家认为，《圣诞颂歌》的发表是狄更斯的创作生涯中的重大转折点；而社会学家则相信，这部作品深刻地改变了现代圣诞节在西方世界的地位和价值，甚至“圣诞快乐”的说法也是由此而得以流行的，狄更斯本人也因此被称为“发明圣诞节”的人。

查尔斯·狄更斯（1812—1870），英国维多利亚时期伟大的小说家、讽刺巨匠、语言大师，代表作有长篇小说《雾都孤儿》《远大前程》《双城记》等。狄更斯想要把“充满爱心和宽恕，与人为善的快乐的”圣诞精神传达给人们，因此在1843年至1848年间写了5个圣诞故事，其中《圣诞颂歌》后来成为他的小说里非常受欢迎的一部。家庭团聚、互换礼物、享用大餐的现代圣诞节，也是自此才流行起来。

Charles Dickenswas born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.