The author most associated with the joy and glow of Christmas is obviously Charles Dickens. Apart from the perennially popular Christmas Carol, Dickens wrote several other Christmas-themed novellas, most notably The Chimes and The Cricket and the Hearth. In his book on Dickens, in a chapter entitled “Dickens and Christmas”, GK Chesterton lauded “Dickens’s great defence of Christmas”: “In fighting for Christmas he was fighting for the old European festival, Pagan and Christian, for that trinity of eating, drinking and praying which to moderns appears irreverent, for the holy day which is really a holiday.” Chesterton wrote that “the great furnace of real happiness that glows through Scrooge and everything around him” had its source in “that great furnace, the heart of Dickens”: