In addition to our new releases, be sure to join us for these special limited, or one-time-only, screenings. Based on the book by Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas was released November 22nd, 2017 in the United States and December 1st, 2017 in the United Kingdom. This film is presented in partnership with Books & Books. Les Standiford The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits Kindle Edition by Les Standiford (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 598 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas CarolRescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits Les Standiford. Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair, and board member of Coral Gables Art Cinema, produced the film. The Man Who Invented Christmas is based on the New York Times best-selling book of the same name written by Miami author Les Standiford. Directed by Bharat Nalluri ( Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day), The Man Who Invented Christmas shows how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens, the beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) mixed real-life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.
The magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (the indomitable Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and all the classic characters from A Christmas Carol, receives an elegantly appointed update courtesy of executive producer (Miami’s own) Mitchell Kaplan.
The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.From the Hardcover edition.FREE SCREENING with Introduction by Les Standiford and Mitchell Kaplan It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all.With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.
He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.The book immediately caused a sensation. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay.
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