A Christmas Episode from »Master Humphrey's Clock«

»A Christmas Episode from ›Master Humphrey’s Clock‹« is a short story by Charles Dickens. It was originally published in Dickens’ weekly periodical Master Hymphrey’s Clock, published between 1840 and 1841. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.