June is here, and down in New Zealand, where a wintry blast of rain has predominated for the last eleven days, it feels like a mid-year Christmas -- which makes finding a New York Times discussion of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol feel particularly apt.
Dickens wrote it because he needed the money, but was not rewarded particularly well. The print run was 6,000, all with hand-tinted illustrations -- a disastrously expensive decision. The project was a financial fiasco. Even a man with the feverishly fertile imagination of Dickens himself could not picture the future of film, pantomime, and drama that lay in the future of this messy little masterpiece.
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