In 1843, even though Dickens is a profitable author, the failure of his newest guide places his profession at a crossroads, till the second when, battling inspiration and confronting actuality together with his childhood recollections, a brand new character is born within the depths of his troubled thoughts; an previous, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a complete world grows round him, a narrative so inspiring that modified the which means of Christmas ceaselessly.
