圣诞颂歌 (Christmas Carol)

从1843年到1848年间，狄更斯几乎在每年圣诞节都发表一个与节日有关的中篇小说，其中《圣诞颂歌》具有极其特殊的地位：书中的情节和人物在西方家喻户晓，一百多年来积聚的"人气"使其成为狄更斯的小说中最深入人心的一部。文学评论家认为，《圣诞颂歌》的发表是狄更斯的创作生涯中的重大转折点；而社会学家则相信，这部作品深刻地改变了现代圣诞节在西方世界的地位和价值，狄更斯本人也因此被称为"发明圣诞节"的人。(From 1843 to 1848, Dickens published a novella about festivals in almost every Christmas, among them Christmas Carol held a very special status: the plot and characters were well-known in the west and the accumulation of popularity in the past more than 100 years has made it the most popular work of Dickens. The literary critics believe that the publication of Christmas Carol was a major turning point in Dickens's writing career. The sociologists believe that this work has profoundly changed the status and value of modern Christmas in the western world, and Dickens himself has been also known as the people "inventing Christmas".)