A Christmas Carol
Also known as A Christmas Carol in Prose, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
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"A Christmas Carol" is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens that tells the story of a wealthy miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve and undergoes a dramatic transformation into a kinder person. The novella remains significant as a beloved classic work of English literature that has been widely adapted and continues to influence how Christmas is portrayed in popular culture.
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- Marley was dead, to begin with.
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- And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
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