Christmas Stories

The collection brings together five winter tales in which miracles do not cancel out a hard life, but rather sharpen the perspective on it. In «A Christmas Carol in Prose», the miserly and cold-hearted moneylender is given a frightening opportunity to see his life from the outside. In «The Bells», the poor messenger Toby Veck experiences fantastic visions related to despair, need, and hope for change. In other parts, Dickens transports the reader into the homes of ordinary families, to lonely individuals, and to those faced with difficult moral choices. All these texts are built on the clash of everyday reality with miraculous intervention and on the question of whether a person can become kinder while it is still not too late.