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Description

On a very special Christmas Eve, a hard-hearted man is given a wonderful and terrifying gift. Ebeneezer Scrooge sees no point in Christmas fun. He forces his employee, Bob Cratchit, to work in his freezing counting-house, only granting poor Cratchit a day off for Christmas at the very last second. Cratchit goes home to his humble but happy home. Scrooge, however, is in for a wild ride through Christmases past, present, and future. Three spirits guide the miserly man through visions that forever change him—opening his eyes and heart, and making him a better man. Itself a Christmas tradition, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol has touched generations since it was first published in 1843.

About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was uniquely successful as a writer during his lifetime, enjoying huge followings from readers and audiences in England and America. When, early in life, sudden misfortune sent his family into extreme poverty, the young Charles was sent to work in a factory. Never forgetting this childhood misery, Dickens wrote often in later life about the plights of the working poor. As a young man he became a law clerk and stenographer, moving into journalism in the 1830s. Dickens's early journalistic sketches formed the basis for his first literary works. With the 1836 serialized publication of The Pickwick Papers, his unparalleled success as an author began. Dickens went on to write such famous novels as David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, and Bleak House, with all of his works remaining in print to this day.

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
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