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    A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
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    A Christmas Carol

    By Charles Dickens

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    In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJun 29, 2015
    ISBN9789635260935
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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    • 5/5
      This is the way to enjoy this story – having Tim Curry read it to you. He does an absolutely fabulous job and it was just a total delight.

      For the story – I love how creepy yet still uplifting the author was able to keep the story. He has really had you feeling for past Ebenezer. I would have liked more about Bob Cratchit because he always seems so much more developed as a character in the cinematic versions of the story. I kind of missed that.

      Tim Curry gives this story a fabulous feel and it keeps you listening to very end. He gives each character a distinct voice and really does the creepy justice. Great way to enjoy a classic.
    • 5/5
      Such a pleasure to read these lovely words! You may know the story, but until you read Charles Dickens’ own words you haven’t truly experienced the magic.
    • 5/5
      This was brilliant, Patrick Stewart does an excellent job portraying the different characters.
    • 4/5
      He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.
      It is hardly a surprise that the holiday arrived this year without my falling into the mood. Overwork and unseasonable weather has left me jarred -- quite removed from the trappings of the spirit. My wonderful wife bought me one of them there smartphones -- so I could join the century. I was simply pleased to be with her on a rainy morning with the thought of the trip to my family weighing rather ominously. I survived it all and actually enjoyed myself. I did not read Mr. Dickens there.

      We came home and enjoyed Chinese take-away and it was then that I turned again to the Christian charm of social justice by means of poltergeists: spectral redemption. There are sound reasons why this tale has proliferated since its inception.
    • 5/5
      This is a great performance of a wonderful classic.

      I think there are few people who don't know the story: Ebenezer Scrooge, tight-fisted businessman who calls Christmas a humbug and has no use for charity or kindness, goes home on Christmas Eve, and is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns him of the fate he has been forging for himself by caring only for business and not for other people, but promises him he has one last chance at salvation.

      He will be visited by three spirits: the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Be. Scrooge is not delighted at this news, but it's not a choice for him. The spirits are coming.

      Tim Curry animates the characters with power, flexibility, and control. We feel the chill of Scrooge's office, and rooms, and heart, and correspondingly the warmth of his nephew's home and heart, as well as Bob Cratchit's home, heart, and family. We hear, and thereby see and feel, the hardships of Victorian London, as well as its life and color.

      This is a great way to enjoy this wonderful classic of the Christmas season.

      Recommended.

      I received this book free as a member of the Ford Audiobook Club.
    • 5/5
      Every year at Christmas the kids and I reread A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens but this year I won a copy of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Illustated by Francine Haskins and  Afterword by Kyra E. Hicks on Library Thing. This popular classic was not changed it was wonderfully illustrated with contemporary line drawings as it brings all of the characters to life as Black Victorians. The Afterword highlights over 100 African Americans, Black British and Canadian actors that have performed A Christmas Carol over the last century demonstrating this story belongs to everyone. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Go Read, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, and my blog at readsbystacie.com
    • 5/5
      A book that stands the test of time and I read this with the approach of Christmas! A very enjoyable book even if you know exactly what is going to happen, worth worth it and it is quite a small book.
    • 5/5
      I recently received a new version of a great classic, A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens. This particular version is illustrated by Francine Haskins with an afterword by Kyra E. Hick. This version has wonderful illustrations that belong in everyone's collection. Thank you to Kyra E. Hick for bringing this to my attention so that I may share it. Francine Haskins brings to live a Christmas Carol for ALL to enjoy regardless of where we live.
    • 5/5
      No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
      This was surprisingly quite funny! The narration was done in that particular style that seems to have been largely abandoned by modern authors: third-person told from a first-person non-character narrator. I love this style! Many of my favorite classics (Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia, etc) are told in this style, and it always lends itself a storybook quality that is sorely lacking in today's literature.

      The story itself was something I am at this point extremely familiar with, as it has permeated all corners of Western civilization at this point, but still, there were some things that are often excluded in most adaptations, such as the children of mankind: "They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." (Except for that one with Jim Carrey, but it added that weird chase scene.) Those parts not oft-explored were really interesting and added a great deal of meaning to the story.

      I am quite glad I read this. This was my first Dickens experience and it has fully convinced me that I really need to read more classics! Time to read them instead of watching their BBC Masterpiece Classics adaptations!

      "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us, and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived."
    • 5/5
      Wonderful illustrations by PJ Lynch sets this edition above the others. The full page illustrations throughout the book helps bring the story alive with the scenes of Victorian England.
    • 4/5
      Another classic I hadn't read, though I've seen plays and movies of course. Reading it how Charles Dickens wrote it was perfect for the season. I have to admit I love Halloween, but this is a great xmas story. You can see how the story has been stretched over the years after reading the original. it really captures the meaning and feeling you should have during the Holiday season. I'm glad I read this. It puts me in a festive mood!
    • 5/5
      What I appreciated this year in A Christmas Carol was how secular, not religious, its story was. I liked Dickens’ dry, ironic humor, used to politely skewer certain people or their habits. This contrasted with his rich descriptions. I love this edition with Schart's lovely illustrations.
    • 5/5
      Great classic that every kid needs to read. I learned about this for the first time in like the third grade when we did a play of it, and I loved it.
    • 2/5
      received for Christmas from my parents 1957
    • 5/5
      Excellent morality tale, especially good at Christmas.
    • 5/5
      What could one possibly say, that hasn't already been told about this book? It's my 'all time favourite' christmas read! Countless times reread and never a second bored with it! It's an absolute 'must' for every fan of xmas!
    • 5/5
      Even though Dickens isn't exactly known for his conciseness, I can't help but love everything I've read by him (except for Great Expectations, which was more of a lukewarm appreciation, I guess). I'm not a Christian, but having lived in mostly Christian countries most of my life, I love it's traditions, especially Christmas!! And the reading of this book during the holidays has practically become that to many people. The many, many adaptations of this book in practically every holiday special of every sitcom ever aired is, I think, a testament to its greatness to all ye of little faith (in Dickens)!!
    • 3/5
      I've read this a couple of times. Dickens was paid by the word & writes like it. He spends way too much time digressing into idiotic areas & filling up space. Example: "Marley was dead, dead as a door nail, although why a door nail should be deader than a coffin nail..." or something like that & goes on about it forever. Never does come to a conclusion - the proper one being a door nail is dead because it was hammered through the door & clinched on the opposite side, hence is dead. Coffin nails are hammered straight in, hence can move with the wood. His stories are classics, but I detest his writing style. Probably worth reading once.
    • 4/5
      Despite the fact that I knew the storyline from multiply adaptations, I found the actual story refreshing and interesting. What surprised me most is how ready Scrooge is to be a changed man. It is only with the ghost of Christmas Past that he is reluctant and unbelieving. After that, he wants only to be taught and to change. And he is humble enough to see all the worst about himself and not be angry or get defensive. It makes Scrooge a more sympathetic character. I also liked the way there is a very present narrator, adding his own observations of the various scenes.
    • 4/5
      Four stars on its own; five because I read it with Shannon. I like the ghost story part, which was handled better than I thought it would be, but I hate poor Tiny Tim and I don't believe in Total Abstinence. Also, I enjoy as much intercourse as possible with Spirits of any sort or kind.

      Dickens was a cheeseball.
    • 4/5
      Knowing the story so well in other media, I thought I'd read the original to better appreciate the variants in its many interpretations. Dickens' catchy descriptions are the finest treasure to be had from it. Scrooge lives in a dismal locale where his home "had so little business to be, it must have run there when it was a young house playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again." The plot moves like the wind compared to his novels. Tiny Tim is shallowly drawn, and yet wins more empathy from the reader than Oliver, Nell or Barnaby could muster. The ending is not so over the top as the movie versions, but even so Bob Crachit is tempted to call for a straightjacket when confronted by a transformed Scrooge. Too much thought at the end is liable to break the charming spell, if you attempt to imagine being confronted by such a man undergoing such a dramatic change. There's no need for that, just read and enjoy.
    • 4/5
      A great festive read,, 9 December 2015This review is from: A Christmas Carol (Paperback)Have read most of Dickens' novels but only just got round to A Christmas Carol, a lovely little novella which may be sentimental but is still a real tear jerker.We meet Ebenezer Scrooge, a joyless, utterly mean employer, sitting in his freezing office on Christmas Eve. He rejects his good-natured neplhew's invitation for Christmas dinner, turns away two gentlemen collecting for the poor: ("Are there no prisons?...the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?") and complains of his clerk, young family man Bob Cratchit, wanting the next day off.But Scrooge is to meet three spirits that show him Christmases past, present and future. We glimpse the Cratchit family making merry as best they can, and Scrooge sees how he will be remembered by his acquaintances in the future, and changes his outlook in consequence.Although I'd never read this before, I'd picked up quotes and the general theme from snippets on TV, and had envisioned it being too syrupy for me ... but it's a wonderful read.
    • 3/5
      So my animosity toward all things Dickens continues. It's not that I don't like this story. Who could dislike it, having seen it umpteen-million times since childhood and knowing that it's basically responsible for Christmas as we know it today? But really, Dickens is so sentimental and so melodramatic. Every character stands for something but isn't really a person. Tiny Tim--need I say more? I read this, and fairly quickly too, and I finished it, which I haven't done with a Dickens work since I was forced to read Hard Times in college. But yet again, I am reminded that Dickens' style and subject matter is the antithesis of what I like to read. I should honestly stop trying, but his belovedness confounds me. Now you'll be saying that I'm the Scrooge!
    • 4/5
      Finally got around to this classic and, even though I was familiar with the story from having seen the myriad of film versions, I enjoyed reading the source material quite a bit. It's very well-written - if a bit wordy in spots, (it is Dickens after all! :), but it's a fun little morality tale that carries a good message of Christmas cheer to last all through the year.
    • 3/5
      Charles Dickens' classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge and the change of heart that he undergoes by seeing 4 ghosts in a night (his old partner Marley, and the three Christmas spirits - Past, Present, and Future). As well as all the various portrayals (Mickey, Muppets, etc, etc, etc,) its a plain and good story. Nothing altogether wrong with it, nothing major to it, and typical in Dickensian fashion -ie. the ten words to describe something that one word would have sufficed (oh the joy of being paid PER WORD). Still, a classic that should be read at least once by one and all.
    • 5/5
      A Christmas Carol is Decembers book club choice so ive left it to read over the Christmas period. However also over Christmas on the tv there has been several versions of the classic, from Alistar Simm to The Muppets. My husband I think has watched every one.So sitting down to read the book I felt I had already read it. I have read Charles Dickens twice before and both times have enjoyed but found hard going. This book I found easier. The story is timeless and is the Christmas story that everyone knows.The book is sure to bring out the Christmas spirit when read. I give the story five stars quite easily, I just wished I could have read it before the many versions on tv appeared.
    • 5/5
      Classic Dickens - a must read for anyone interested in his writing, or just feels like getting in the Christmas spirit.

      Also recommended for people who go to see the live performance of this work - the language will probably be slightly different here.

    • 5/5
      I love this book like no other.

      I just read it for the first time, and as I read through it I pictured in my head me and my future family softly turning the pages in a well-loved, often-read edition. There were so many beautiful phrases, beautiful words that only Dickens could string together so honestly and meaningfully.

      The story is simple and it's a story that everybody knows. But to think of Dickens' creativity to write this before anything like it had been done before? To imagine the kindly trembling hand of the last Ghost, or the blinding light, or the face on the door-knocker? It's wildly imaginative. Decades later it still works.

      I think it's beautiful that this book lasts throughout the ages..... and I know that as long as there is a human society that continues to appreciate literature, this small book will be cherished.... its romantic values, its simple redemption... it's absolute beauty.
    • 5/5
      this is maybe the perfect story. i've had it forever and just never got around to reading it. of course i already knew the story before reading the book. it's really nice to read a story where you really understand why someone is mean and then they see the error of their ways and change instead of just being defeated by the hero. the last section was so beautiful i cried. the only problem was that i've seen a muppet christmas carol so many times that it was hard to not picture bob cratchit as kermit the frog.
    • 1/5
      ENOUGH of this play! I hate it!

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