title: A Christmas Dinner
author: Charles Dickens
description: Dickens invites us to sit down to dinner on the most perfect day of the year. Hurts are forgiven and love abounds in this spirited Christmas tale. --Donna VanLiere, author of &#34;The Chrismas Shoes&#34; and other holiday favorites
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  _A Christmas Dinner_
  
  
  by Charles Dickens
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword by Peter Ackroyd  
  Illustrations by Sharon Stein  
  Menus and Recipes by Alice Ross
  
  
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  _W ould that Christmas lasted a whole year through (as it ought)._
  
  
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  Charles Dickens  
  London, 1835
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _A Christmas Dinner_ by Charles Dickens
  
  
  Foreword Copyright ©2008 by Peter Ackroyd
  
  
  Menus & Recipes by Alice Ross Illustrations by Sharon Stein
  
  
  Book Design by Susan Smilanic and Ally Crilly
  
  
  Art enhancement by Sheri Worth
  
  
  Copyright ©2008 by Red Rock Press
  
  
  Engraving of Charles Dickens by William G. Jackmen, ca. 1840, ©
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