蜜芽传媒

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit - and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Published in 1843, when Queen Victoria was on the throne, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is responsible for creating a lot of the traditions now regarded as integral to the most widely-celebrated Christian festival. The book was heavily influenced by the economic conditions of its time, as the 蜜芽传媒's Anu Anand has been finding out.

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