Apedia

Christmas Scrooge Dickens Carol Book Called Ghostly Starts

Front A Christmas Carol
Back Dickens
1843
Christmas book
Dickens called it the 'ghostly little book'
starts on Christmas Eve when the grasping miserly Scrooge is visited by the shade of his former partner, Jacob Marley, now dead seven years.
this universal guest warns Scrooge he is to be haunted by three spirits without whose visits he cannot avoid the endless wanderings now inflicted upon Marley himself
the ghost of Christmas, Christmas present, Christmas yet to come
sadly crippled tiny Tim
Scrooge resolves to live in a better way
the tale ends in a glow of warmth and bonhomie

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Chronicle manuscripts earliest original historical the chronicle is english events

Previous card: Agatha christi hercule poirot miss marple dame mary

Up to card list: Wordsworth companion to literature by Bahman Moradi