| A Christmas Carol Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535335122 ISBN-13: 9781535335126 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Holidays - Fiction | Christian - Classic & Allegory |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Series: Charles Dickens |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 7.01" W x 10" (0.31 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Middle East - Holiday - Christmas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - CLASSIC LITERATURE - 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 on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The tale begins on a "cold, bleak, biting" Christmas Eve in London, exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, is established within the first stave as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner " He hates Christmas, calling it "humbug"; he refuses his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner invitation, and he sarcastically turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the poor and needy. His only "Christmas gift" is allowing his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay |