Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.
Publication Date: 1843
Length: 86
Series: Stand Alone
Reason for Discovery: I have seen every incarnation of the movie. I thought I should read the book.
This is a book that I got for free, so it satisfies COYER's requirements!
This is a book that I got for free, so it satisfies COYER's requirements!
From GoodReads:
In
his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept
of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and
imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of
Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters,
but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still
plagued with avarice and cynicism.
For those of you who don't know, this book is about a miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. These three ghosts teach Scrooge the importance of Christmas and of kindness.
I have watched lots of different versions of A Christmas Carol on the television and in the theater. I have seen Scrooge played as an animated character, a woman, and an alien or two. I thought it was time for me to sit down and read this short book. I had tried to read it back when I was in high school, but I didn't find it compelling at the time. I think I had seen one too many movies of the story, and I was burnt out.
I must admit that I was rather impressed by this little story. It is a short story and the writing is very tight. You move at a brisk pace but You never feel rushed. I was pleasantly surprised that to discover that there were a few bits of the text that I haven't seen (or at least rarely saw) in movie versions of this tale. These little discoveries sprinkled through the text made reading the book enjoyable, because I was on the look out for parts of the story that don't usually make it to the screen.