A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas Pdf is a Classic Fiction Christmas Holiday Novel By Charles Dickens. One of the best-loved and most quoted stories of “the man who invented Christmas”-English writer Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol debuted in 1843 and has touched millions of hearts since.
A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas Summary
Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like. . .and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. Experience a true Victorian Christmas!
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About Charles Dickens Author Of A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas Pdf Book
Charles Dickens Author Of A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas Pdf was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Independently published (November 7, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 70 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1730970672
- ISBN-13 : 978-1730970672
- Reading age : 6+ years, from customers
- Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.18 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #222,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 21,319 ratings
A Christmas Carol In Prose; Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas Book Review
5.0 out of 5 stars AN ECONOMICAL VERSION OF THE “CLASSIC” CHRISTMAS TALE
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2018
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Dickens’ marvelous and uplifting tale is available in this very economically-priced edition, The story itself is familiar to nearly all, having been the subject of numerous filmed versions. But I would like to point out that, contrary to some “modern” interpretations, Dickens’ book really DOES have a strong “Christian” focus.
For instance, when we first encounter Scrooge, he is described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” (Pg. 2) And when we first encounter Tiny Tim, his father is bringing him from church, where Tim “hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.” (Pg. 38) Dickens says, “Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!” (Pg. 61) And as we all know, Tim’s signature line is, “God Bless Us, Every One!” (Pg. 40)
Scrooge’s nephew greets him saying, “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” (Pg. 3) Scrooge famously retorts, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly in his heart.” (Pg. 3-4) But his nephew replied, “though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] HAS done me good, and WILL do me good; and I say, God bless it!” (Pg. 4)
Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley tells him, “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business… Why did I walk through the crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!” (Pg. 14)
When Scrooge hopes that Tiny Tim will be spared death, the Ghost tells him, “‘If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’ Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit…” The Ghost adds, “Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.” (Pg. 40)
When Scrooge is shown the joyful party at his nephew’s house, his nephew says to his fellow partygoers of Scrooge, “his offenses carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him… I am sorry for him… Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always… the consequence of his taking a dislike to us… is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm.” (Pg. 45)
Ultimately, of course, Scrooge pledges, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Pg. 62) And “to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew… and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well.” (Pg. 68). This is a timeless and wonderful story—that EVERYONE should read.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Christmas Carol Book Review (MS. LANGLIE! HERE IT IS!)
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2015
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone,” (Dickens 144) the once miserly, old Scrooge pledges desperately to the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come as they stand over Scrooge’s future grave, following their witnessing of the nightmarish images of his own forthcoming death and its pitiable consequences. Charles Dickens’ charming and clever classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his change of heart has touched a countless number of people over generations. This five-star novel’s utterly moving message and immense genius will touch many more to come, and urge others to make the pledge to “honor Christmas in [their own hearts], and try to keep it all the year,” (Dickens 144), as Scrooge so thoroughly did himself that one Christmas night.
Originally published in the year of 1843, A Christmas Carol summons us to Victorian London, contemporary to the year the story was published. The selfish, stingy, miserly, and miserable, old Ebenezer Scrooge broods in his hatred for the Christmas Season, as Scrooge greatly detests happiness, generosity, love, and family. Christmas Eve night, he is haunted by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who appears to Scrooge with a long, heavy chain made from all of the terrible things that Marley pursued in life. Marley warns Scrooge that he is doomed to Marley’s same, terrible fate unless he changes the way he lives his life. So he tells Scrooge that three more Spirits will haunt him during the course of the night. We all know the story: the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet To Come visit Scrooge and show him moments in his lifetime in order to instill in Scrooge the idea to stop being so dreadful and instead to become compassionate. Throughout Scrooge’s tale, Charles Dickens introduces to us three different methods (one for each of the three spirits) as the tools for a person, such as Scrooge, to change one’s life. A very prominent theme portrayed in A Christmas Carol, is how the application of these three methods will change someone’s heart.
The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of the three to appear to Scrooge and the first to apply one of Dickens’ methods to change Scrooge’s heart. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to his childhood and early years to show him all of the people he has loved. He sees his beloved, younger sister, Fan, the mother of his ever-encouraging nephew, Fred; he sees the jolly man to whom he was once apprenticed, Fezziwig, and the jovial love he showed to all his family and friends; and Scrooge also sees his former fiancée, reliving not only the scene of when she left him due to his growing greed, but also the images of the happy life she led after she left him. Seeing these people in his past renews Scrooge’s spark of love for his family and friends. Dickens’ first step to a change of heart— love.
The jolly Ghost of Christmas Present succeeds the Ghost of Christmas Past and leads Scrooge through the existing world to see all those who were currently celebrating Christmas. He shows Scrooge the Cratchits, the family of Scrooge’s clerk Bob Cratchit, demonstrating to Scrooge how his habit of penny-pinching and ill behavior toward Bob Cratchit is affecting the poor, struggling family, in particular Bob Cratchit’s crippled son, Tiny Tim. This helps Scrooge feel regret for the decisions he has made and become more generous to those in need. The second method to the changing of Scrooge’s heart was the feeling of regret.
Then the wraithlike Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appears to Scrooge and shows him scenes from the future. At first, these scenes meant nothing to Scrooge as he saw the people of London’s disgraceful response to a terrible man’s death until Scrooge realized that this terrible man was Scrooge himself. This sudden realization at the setting of Scrooge’s own future grave was the sign of his complete conversion to kindheartedness. He felt absolute fear of the images he saw, and wanted nothing more than to reverse them. Hence, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come applied the final method of transformation— fear for the future’s terrible consequences.
So there are the keys to Scrooge’s conversion— love, regret, and fear for the future. The theme of how the application of these three methods is the key to changing someone’s frame of mind I believe is both valid and properly conveyed. With the help of the three spirits that fateful, Christmas Eve night, Ebenezer Scrooge realized that he must always have, “the Spirits of all Three… strive within [him, and] not shut out the lessons that they teach,” because if he went back to not loving, not feeling regret and guilt, and not being wary or fearful of future consequences, Scrooge would return to the greedy, wicked state in which he had found himself the night before. But that theme isn’t the most prominent in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The most prominent theme is the happiness one feels when one shows more benevolence, and I think that Dickens displayed this intent more than thoroughly by the end of his tale. And how true that is. Scrooge would’ve gone on living his rotten life with no lasting legacy when he died if it were not for the spirits’ visits. Instead, he spent the rest of his years becoming “as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world,” (Dickens 158).
In Charles Dickens’ flawlessly written tale of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge learns that happiness can come to us if we will forget self and worldly gain, concentrating instead on helping others and learning to embrace the love of family and friends. Dickens’ clear, concise, and beautiful depiction of the world’s most beloved Christmas story second only to Christmas’ inspiration is one that everyone would benefit from reading. And may those who read it, remember themselves to “honor Christmas in [their hearts], and try to keep it all the year,” (Dickens 144).
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