Patrick Stewart
Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge
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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 ...
- Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
- 1843
- MARLEY’S GHOST. Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
- THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS. When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.
- THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS. Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
- THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.
Nov 6, 2009 · A Christmas Carol: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Steve Valentine, Daryl Sabara, Sage Ryan. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
- (130K)
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Robert Zemeckis
- 2009-11-06
May 10, 2024 · A Christmas Carol, short novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1843. The story, suddenly conceived and written in a few weeks, is one of the outstanding Christmas stories of modern literature. Through a series of spectral visions, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is allowed to review his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Christmas Carol: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes. A Christmas Carol Full Book Summary. Previous Next. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire.
- Charles Dickens, Michael Slater
- 1843
A Christmas Carol: Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. With Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley. Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time.
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.
