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"'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessentia..." — Claire Tomalin
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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