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A Christmas Carol is probably best known now as a story
exploited by Hollywood repeatedly in straight adaptations (Disney抯
included) 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.
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"Bah Humbug " That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about
Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future
decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways.
Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who
have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their
journey concludes, Scrooge is reminded of what it means to have
love in his heart, and what the true spirit of Christmas is all
about. A timeless story the whole family will enjoy "From the Trade
Paperback edition."