A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 7, 2018
You know the story of this quintessential holiday tale, but have you ever read it? So many times has the tale been told—in numerous stage and screen adaptations—that we are apt to take the power of its invention for granted. Yet no retelling comes close to capturing the humor and human sympathy, the delicious spookiness and ultimate good cheer of Dickens’s original narrative. All of the author’s famous gifts are on display in this cheering fable of a miser’s Christmas Eve metamorphosis from misanthrope to man of good will, including his talent for deft characterization (in the figure, for instance, of Scrooge’s clerk, the put-upon but ever hopeful Bob Cratchit); for poignant sentiment (in the figure of Cratchit’s lame son, Tiny Tim); and for ingenious monikers (was any curmudgeon ever more aptly named than Ebenezer Scrooge?).
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DeAnn Rossetti
Oct 28, 2018
If you don't love A Christmas Carol you're a SCROOGE!
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Chuck Munro
Mar 18, 2019
Truly, one of the most cathartic stories of the pain neglect, betrayal, resentment, regret, and its release, every written.
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Byron Johnson
Mar 26, 2019
Fantastic Christmas story
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Mr. Griebel
Mar 27, 2019
Through this novel, Dickens reinvented how the western world celebrates Christmas. This is definitely a wonderful novel worth reading.
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John
Mar 28, 2019
My absolute favorite Christmas book....well other than the Christmas story in the Bible.
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Len Blasiol
May 18, 2019
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Deirdre
Jun 25, 2019
A wonderful morality tale
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Janice Badger Nelson
Dec 20, 2019
A Christmas favorite.
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DK
Jan 27, 2020
Delightful and poignant. Dickens has fun with his prose, forcing a smile to the reader's face at times, then moving to social commentary on the human condition in turns.
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Marc Acito
Apr 15, 2020
More than a page-turner and a morality tale, A CHRISTMAS CAROL contributed to major social change as a rebuke of the cruelties of the industrial revolution. And, for better or worse, it domesticated Christmas celebrations which had been ribald revelry into the family-oriented holiday we know today
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jacque
Nov 19, 2021
Read it and loved it
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Leslie Maxwell
Sep 24, 2022
Yes
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Jay Winchester
Jun 5, 2023
I played Scrooge on the stage for 10 years. A novel of redemption
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Chuck
Jul 28, 2023
A universal tale of the cost of unacknowledged pain and regret.
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Erika
Jun 28
Thanks for Christmas.
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Jessica
23 hrs
fave
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