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At Christmas

Although he came from a moderately well-off family, Charles Dickens worked in a factory from the age of 12 and the dreadful conditions had an impact on him that shaped his social conscience; the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his writing. One of his best known novels is A Christmas Carol, from which this extract is taken.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better

than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)