The children’s author and poet’s new version of A Christmas Carol, Bah! According to Rosen, most retellings of A Christmas Carol “dispense with why Dickens wrote it in the first place”. He originally planned to write a pamphlet, but turned to fiction instead, publishing A Christmas Carol later that year to what his biographer Claire Tomalin has called “rapturous approval”. “Dickens wrote it because he was appalled when he saw children and the way they were treated,” said Rosen. They talk about it like a success but to me it looks like abject failure.”Rosen’s editor at Scholastic UK, Linas Alsenas, said that retelling a book as “universally beloved” as A Christmas Carol “was always going to be a risky proposition.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 10:41 UTC