Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol in Prose Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas or A Christmas Carol


It is novella met with instant success and critical acclaim.


?A Christmas Carol?


It tells the story of a bitter old miser called Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, happier man after a visit to the spirit of his former business associate Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Still To Come.


The book was published at a time when the British were researching and changing past Christmas rituals as well as modern ones such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees.


Carol's singing has taken a new lease on life during this period. Dickens' story sources tend to be numerous and varied, but they are mostly the traumatic memories of his youth, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.


? Christmas Carol remains popular - never out of print - and has been adapted several times to film, stage, opera, and other media.