Last Friday, Gary and I had the opportunity to see the play, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, one of the most recognized writers and social critics of his day. 
Social reform in nineteenth century England was very important, and Dickens, remembering how difficult his family’s life was growing up, expressed the turmoil of that time in his writing. Intensely interested in the crises of child labor and living conditions of the poor, Charles Dickens believed that the only way to change society was to change hearts...

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