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A short summary of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Christmas Carol.
Dec 24, 2007 · Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870: Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939: ISBN: 0-397-00033-2 Title: A Christmas Carol Original Publication: Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915 Note: Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #46 (Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech)
A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens' most enduring and well-loved tales. He wrote it in six weeks, and it was originally published in the Christmas of 1843. It evokes perfectly the sensations of a Victorian Christmas, but its lasting appeal lies in its power to speak to us today, 170 years later.
Jan 3, 2024 · Dickens called his little Christmas book a carol; carol being a song or ballad of joy celebrating the birth of Christ. He carries the pretense further by calling the chapters staves; a stave being an archaic form of stanza or verse of a song.
Sep 20, 2006 · Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870: Illustrator: Williams, George Alfred, 1875-1932: Title: A Christmas Carol Original Publication: New York The Platt & Peck Co. Copyright, 1905, by The Baker & Taylor Company Note: Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #46 (Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech)
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks during October and November 1843, and the novella (technically, it is not counted among his novels) appeared just in time for Christmas, on 19 December. The book’s effect was immediate.
Stave 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. It is Christmas Eve, seven years since the death of Jacob Marley, the business partner and only friend of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is in his counting house, keeping a cruel monopoly on the coal supply and keeping his clerk Bob Cratchit in the cold.
