My short text message which contributed to the debate on Simon Mayo's weekly book panel, BBC Radio 5 Live. The debate addressed the issue as to whether novellas can still be considered as significant as lengthier novels in the great literature cannon:
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is without doubt his greatest work as well as his shortest. Scrooge has the most influential character development of all time within some of the spookiest atmospheric imagery ever written. Not to mention its good old fashioned heart warming promotion of good values. Our contemporary image of christmas would not be the same without it.
Ben Lamb. Hull
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