Colm Tóibín: The nightmare before Christmas | Curio

Colm Tóibín: The nightmare before Christmas

8 mins | Dec 24, 2017

What makes the book so powerful? Forget seasonal cheer, Dickens’s A Christmas Carol takes greater pleasure in Scrooge’s ghostly visions than in his redemption. The acclaimed author Colm Tóibín examines the motivation behind the most famous of Christmas stories.

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