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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
- A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
- 1843
- 19 December 1843; 179 years ago
- 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.
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
Dec 24, 2007 · 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) #19337 (Published in 1905; Illustrations in Black and White by G. A. Williams)
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- 0-397-00033-2
- Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
- A Christmas Carol
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
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.
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.
