A Christmas Carol - Dickens, Charles
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A Christmas Carol is one of the most famous, heartwarming, and chilling festive stories of all time. We meet Ebenezer Scrooge here, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who says 'Merry Christmas' should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a holly stake in the heart.' On Christmas Eve, the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him. Three spirits visit Scrooge in turn, each revealing his error and gradually melting his frozen heart, leading him to redemption. Scrooge's journey takes us past a rich array of Dickensian…mehr

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A Christmas Carol is one of the most famous, heartwarming, and chilling festive stories of all time. We meet Ebenezer Scrooge here, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who says 'Merry Christmas' should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a holly stake in the heart.' On Christmas Eve, the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him. Three spirits visit Scrooge in turn, each revealing his error and gradually melting his frozen heart, leading him to redemption. Scrooge's journey takes us past a rich array of Dickensian characters, including the poor Cratchit family with ailing Tiny Tim and the generous Fezziwig. A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens in 1843, captures the essence of the love, kindness, and generosity of the Christmas season. It is a timeless classic, and the story's uplifting magic is as powerful today as it was then.
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.