So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their ...
The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. But surely they were very quiet! "'And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them.'" Where...
A Christmas Carol, British dramatic film, released in 1951, that is widely considered the best adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale of the same name. It is a perennial favourite at Christmastime, when it is frequently broadcast on television. Di
What is A Christmas Carol About? The Dickens book A Christmas Carol follows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted but wealthy man who hates Christmas. Over the course of a single night, Scrooge is visited by several ghosts that show him visions of his life on Christmas in different...
Learn about Charles Dickens' short novel ''A Christmas Carol'' and its publication history. Explore Dickens' social conscience and his purposes for...
The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of `God bless you, merry gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!‘ Scrooge seized the ruler...
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My favorite film version of A Christmas Carol is the 1984 made-for-TV version starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Faithful to Dickens' original with much of the dialogue lifted right out of the book, this version includes an excellent cast: Susannah York, Roger Rees, David Warner...
A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge (right) and the Ghost of Christmas Present, illustration from an edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. (more) A Christmas Carol work by Dickens Ask the Chatbot a Question More Actions Also known as: “A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a ...