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It's Christmastime in London, and overworked Bob Cratchit and his family, including poorly Tiny Tim, find joy and cheer even in poverty. Meanwhile Bob's boss, the selfish, miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge, is deeply bitter about the festive season. However, when Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, the error of his ways is revealed with haunting clarity. Dickens's timeless classic, which has popularised phrases...
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"First published in 1843, 'A Christmas Carol' is Charles Dickens' touching fable about Ebenezer Scrooge's conversion from miserable penny -pincher to jovial benefactor. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts who show him the error of his ways. With this story, Dickens captured the "spirit of benevolence" we now assume to be the essence of the Christmas Season, and immortalized both himself and his protagonist. This beautiful...
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"On a bleak Christmas Eve, miserable old Scrooge returns to his gloomy lodgings to spend the festive season on his own as usual. Any invitations to Christmas parties have been flatly turned down. Christmas? Bah! humbug!. But this Christmas night he is visited by four strange spirits, each with a lesson that will change his life forever."--Back cover.
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"It's Uncle Scrooge like you've never seen him before! Travel back in time to Scrooge's younger days to explore the origins of everyone's favorite miser. Find out how Uncle Scrooge made his first, second, third, and fourth millions in a four-part story that answers all your burning questions about how Scrooge McDuck got so very, very rich, and so very, very stingy!" -- back cover.
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