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A Christmas Carol is probably best known now as a story
exploited by Hollywood repeatedly in straight adaptations and
altered versions such as the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged.
Regardless of how it is now known it is certainly well known, and
its anti-hero Scrooge represents curmudgeonly and stingy attitudes
outside the context of the book. It was published a Christmas book
in 1843 and is quite a simple tale but successful for that reason.
Scrooge is avaricious, misanthropic and heartless, showing no
feeling for the Christmas spirit After he is visited by the ghost
of his former business partner, Marley, he sees visions of his
past, present and future that inspire him to become a zealously
kind and amiable individual who sends a turkey to his clerk Bob
Cratchit and gives to Christmas charities generously. It is a
somewhat saccharine tale and is not one of Dickens?finer works but
the story itself is heartening and is a proposed alternative to the
grim and stern Puritan values of the Victorian age.
内容简介
Merry Christmas, everyone "Bah " said Scrooge. "Humbug " With
those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring
that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and
friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the
story in solitude, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a very
special holiday experience. It is the one book that every year will
warm our hearts with favorite memories of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny
Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and
Future--and will remind us with laughter and tears that the true
Christmas spirit comes from giving with love. With a heartwarming
account of Dickens' first reading of the Carol, and a biographical
sketch.