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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas. by Charles Dickens. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Reviewed in India on August 4, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens!!! Its a Classic fiction Story which revolves around a person named Ebenezer Scrooge, The man only gives respect to money but no one else!!!/5(K). To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partn. 'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart/5(K).

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens that was first published in Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of A Christmas Carol, scene by scene break-downs, and more. After touring textile mills in Lowell, Mass., Charles Dickens described the excursion as "the happiest day" of his American visit. Perhaps because he'd found one inspiration for A Christmas Carol, his famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a heartless miser reformed by ghosts. Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text. A Christmas Carol. Appendix A: Reflections on Christmas. Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book () Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Dinner" () Charles Dickens, from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club () Thomas K. Hervey, from The Book of Christmas ().

A Christmas Carol was first published on Decem, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By , the novella had gone through 13 printings and continues to be a robust seller more than years later. Did you know Dickens didn't make very much money from early editions of A Christmas Carol. Though it was a runaway best seller, Dickens was very fastidious about the endpapers and how the book was bound, and the price of materials took a big chunk out of his potential. A Christmas Carol: Stave I Created for Lit2Go on the web at www.doorway.ru 5 “Let me leave it alone, then,” said Scrooge. “Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!” “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. “Christmas among the rest. When Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in late , he had ambitious purposes in mind, yet he could never have imagined the profound impact his story would have. Dickens had already achieved great fame, yet his most recent novel wasn't selling well and he feared his success had peaked.