Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Historical

Mugby Junction, first published in the 1866 Christmas issue of Charles Dickens's weekly magazine All the Year Round. Today, many people may not realize the debt they owe to Dickens -- his holiday stories almost single-handedly transformed Christmas from a disreputable holiday known for roughhousing and carousing, to the goodwill, charity and warmly-remembered traditions that the holiday represents today. As Dickens grew older, his fictional Christmases sometimes became far darker than the j...