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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge , an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of ...
Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era.
A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future is a play in three acts (or ‘Staves’) by Edward Stirling which opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 5 February 1844. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Containing songs especially written for the show, the drama was adapted from the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which had been published just ...
Jefferson Mays and his wife, Susan Lyons, talk about "A Christmas Carol" and the enduring appeal of Charles Dickens' 180-year ghost story of Christmas in an interview with USA Today Network New ...
An hourlong edition was released to schools and libraries in 1941; many video versions derive from this edited version. A Christmas Carol (1938), a US version starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge, Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim, and Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits. [81] Produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
A Christmas Carol is a one-man stage performance by English actor Patrick Stewart of the Charles Dickens 1843 novella of the same title, which has been performed in the United Kingdom and the United States on occasion since 1988. Stewart was originally inspired to create the adaptation during the production of the 1986 film Lady Jane. It is ...
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is the last of the three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption , foretold by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley .
A Christmas Carol is a British-American animated adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella. [2] The film was broadcast on U.S. television by ABC on December 21, 1971, and released theatrically soon after. [3] In 1972, it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [4]