The aim of this first Dickens Bookmark is to give an account of the first and most popular of Dickens’s five Christmas Books, its central themes of selfishness and greed which find one their most menacing representations in the figures of the two children, ‘wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable’ who lurk beneath folds of the robes of Christmas Present. The Bookmark will also explore the way in which this short story reflects Dickens’s growing concern for dwelling upon his own autobiography and, in this sense, examines his concern for the lost childhood.
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