Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (Illustrated) Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a novella that was first published in 1843. It is a book that you can read in under two hours, which is unlike many books written by Charles Dickens. He used his books as social criticisms for what was going on in his world. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a tightfisted, mean-spirited, man, the kind of person who rains on your parade with his sour disposition, always complaining and finding fault with everyone. The story starts on Christmas Eve, and we learn from the narrator that Scrooge's partner, Jacob Marley, is dead as a doornail - he died seven years ago. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, is copying letters in another room, and Scrooge has the door open so that he can make sure that his employee is not using logs to warm up his room. His nephew, Fred visits to wish him a Merry Christmas, and to invite him over for Christmas dinner. As usual, Scrooge declines the invitation because he is a grouch who wants no part of Christmas. What happens to someone why they would become like Scrooge?Ebenezer Scrooge is so tightfisted that he resents having to pay Bob for not working Christmas day. Before he departs for the day, two men who are described as portly are fundraising to feed the hungry and poor, but Scrooge has some very harsh and cruel words for them, and they leave his office without a donation. When he is about to open the door to his home, the door knocker is transformed momentarily into the ghostly face of his dead business partner, Marley. Before he can make too much of what he is seeing, the apparition disappears and he sees the door knocker again. The reader knows what is going to come next. Buy, Read, Review and Share your reading your experience in the below comments section.