Fred Guida (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: A Critical Examination of Dickens's Story and Its Productions on Screen and Television, McFarland & Company, 2000, 11–36, 87–115.
[In the following excerpts, Guida considers the literary, political, and economic roots of Dickens's novella and traces the various cinematic adaptations of the story in the twentieth century.]
A true feast actually has nothing to do with what you eat … but with what you remember.
Jeff Smith, the...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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