Christmas song in prose. Holy story

"Christmas song in prose" Charles Dickens is one of the most popular Christmas books. The story was written and published by Dickens in 1843 and became a sign in the history of not only English, but also world culture, because from it, like from a pebble thrown into the water, wide circles that affected literature, theater, cinema, animation and book graphics. The story was translated into almost all languages ​​of the world and repeatedly into Russian. In this book, the story was given in the translation of S. M. Dolgova (1891) The language of his translation is very well conveys the spirit of Victorian England, as well as the intonation of Dickens. It is important that the text is accompanied by comments in the fields, without which many meanings of the story would remain incomprehensible: what is a work house, the law on the poor, why poor people carry his dinners to the bakery and so on. Notes make reading more interesting, and understanding is deeper