A Christmas Carol Book
But wait a minute. A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas commonly known as A Christmas Carol is a book by Charles Dickens that was first published on December 19 1843. Copyright 1905 by The Baker Taylor Company Note. But this one is actually a Songbook called Heartfelt Carols.
Dickens called it his little Christmas Book.
A Christmas Carol Book. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge who transforms into a kinder man after a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas. He used his books as social criticisms for what was going on in his world. Doesnt that cover look like its from one of those Australian animated versions.
A Christmas Carol Imprint. Free delivery on qualified orders. Moving from the shorthand version to about 70 years later we come across another wacky book an adaptation of A Christmas Carol from 1985.
The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past present and future. Rare BookSpecial Collections reading room Jefferson LJ239. It is a book that you can read in under two hours which is unlike many books written by Charles Dickens.
More by this Author. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a novella that was first published in 1843. An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech. Ebenezer Scrooge a miserly businessman is visited by three spirits who take him on a wondrous journey that changes him forever. Since its publication in 1843 A Christmas Carol has become a cultural touchstone imparting a message as relevant to our world today as it was in Dickens own Victorian age.
Author Sean Michael Wilson does an especially good job at adapting Dickens uses much of the original text and dialog. The First of the Three Spirits. A Christmas Carol.