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The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain
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The story follows a haunted man, Redlaw, who is granted a wish by a mysterious ghost, who offers to erase all memories of pain and suffering from his mind. However, Redlaw soon realizes that the cost of this wish is the loss of all human emotions and the inability to feel love, happiness, or compassion. In his journey to regain his humanity, Redlaw learns the importance of forgiveness, redemption, and the power of memories, both good and bad, to shape who we are. Through its portrayal of the haunted man's journey, the novel highlights the power of the human spirit to overcome suffering and find redemption.
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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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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I really have no idea what this is, and I'm not sure I care to find out further.
No, no, that's not fair. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the final of Dickens' Christmas novellas, and the 15th all up of his 24 major works. Published in 1848, at the height of Dickens' busy career as playwright, social avenger, board member, husband, father, traveller, speechmaker, celebrity, and Dombey and Son churner-outer, this is perhaps my least favourite of the Christmas novellas. Well, The Battle of Life is less powerful but at least it's not as long.
The story of a man given the power to obliterate the past feels needlessly repetitive. With Ebenezer Scrooge, each of the three ghosts brought a different aspect, and the story moved fairly swiftly toward its character development. Redlaw is not Ebenezer Scrooge, and the moral he learns - while powerful - could have been told in one of Dickens' short sketches.
Regardless, CD is a strong writer, and his descriptions of a bleak and luminous landscape, of the world inhabited by Redlaw, make me glad I read through this at least once (even if the height of summer - a Southern Hemisphere Christmas! - is ill-fitting). Thankfully, from here on out, Dickens will write nothing but gems. Consider this one a blip on an otherwise crisp record. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The fifth and final of Dickens' Christmas Books and the one I thought was most like A Christmas Carol in quality and in its themes.Mr Redlaw has had many sorrows in his life although he is known as a generous man if gloomy and solitary. He is thinking of his sorrows one Christmas when he is visited by a ghost or spirit which offers him the gift of forgetting all the wrongs and sorrows which weigh on him so heavily."I bear within me a Sorrow and a Wrong. Thus I prey upon myself. Thus, memory is my curse; and, if I could forget my sorrow and my wrong, I would!"Believing that he would be happier without this remembrance, Redlaw agrees and the spirit takes these memories from him but also leaves him with the gift of passing this forgetfulness on to all others that he meets. Dickens uses this gift of forgetfulness powerfully among the strong cast of characters he has included in this novella to teach that it is the memory of our sorrows and sufferings that is the source of our compassion and enables us to forgive others and that without suffering, there can be no true joy.A very powerful story.
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