We decided to break format this week, and we might do it again at that (it was wonderful).  To ring in the holiday week, we had to spend a little time talking about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  And we must admit we had never read it until now.  We sit down with Dean Natalie McKnight at Boston University, and Professor Joel Brattin at Worcester Polytechnic. Both top Dickensian scholars in their field, we ask them why this book still universally resonates….hundreds of years later.

Books mentioned in this week's episode:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

The Chimes by Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

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