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Anti Corporate Greed Christmas Fiction Genre

Anti Corporate Greed Christmas Fiction Genre

By Bob Plain on December 21, 2012

Christmas may often get clouded by commercialism, but the holiday’s most popular works of fiction clearly extol the opposite virtue. The most obvious and popular example is Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.” It not only gave birth to Christmas fiction genre, it also gave birth to the sub-genre of anti-corporate-greed-themed Christmas fiction. Ebenezer Scrooge [...]

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