A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles, 1812-18702003

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Ebenezer Scrooge, one of Dickens' best-known characters, has become a byword of meanness. He hates children and animals, refuses to celebrate Christmas and treats his long-suffering employee Bob Cratchit with great inhumanity. Then, one Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his late business partner, and is shown terrifying visions of his own past, present and future.Dickens skilfully draws a portrait of the miserly old businessman, depicts the hustle and bustle of 19th-century London and sprinkles in plenty of his own brand of acerbic humour. This touching story of one man's change of heart in an ideal introduction to the works of one of England's greatest novelists.