A Christmas Carol | A Christmas Carol

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Author: Charles Dickens
First Published: 1843
Type of Work: Short Story
Genres: Long fiction, Ghost story, Satire
Subjects: Values, Memory, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Ghosts or apparitions, Dreams, Poverty or poor people, Spiritual life or spirituality, England or English people, Fear, Christianity, Death or dying, Lower classes, Greed, London, Holidays, Money, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Victorian era or Victorianism, Christmas
Locales: London, England

This story opens on Christmas Eve in the office of Scrooge, a miserly Victorian businessman. Opposed to Christmas as pointless frivolity, Scrooge refuses to make a contribution to Christmas charities, begrudges his employee Bob Cratchit a holiday on Christmas day, and rejects his nephew’s Christmas greeting with the now-famous phrase “Bah! Humbug!”

Returning to his lonely and desolate dwelling, Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former partner, who promises that he will be visited by three spirits. The first of these, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows...

A Christmas Carol | A Christmas Carol

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