Jan 1, 2010
A Christmas Carol | A Christmas Carol
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1843
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Moral
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- 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
Places Discussed
*London. Scrooge’s first nocturnal journey is guided by the Ghost of
Christmas Present, who whisks him from his bed on a nighttime journey to observe
London’s joyful holiday season. They oversee Christmas delight in the Cratchit home,
located in a poor section of London (where author Charles Dickens himself had once lived).
Before this ghost withers away on the streets of London, he escorts Scrooge to holiday scenes
among northern miners and coastal lighthouse keepers; he even whisks him out to sea to watch
Christmas’s softening effect on rough sailors....
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