SUGARLOAF TWP. — Before Ebenezer Scrooge, there was Gabriel Grub, a cheerless loner who disliked Christmas until he meets otherworldly visitors. Charles Dickens created Grub in “The Story of a Goblin ...
THUMBNAIL SKETCH: While across the lobby at the main Alleyway Theatre they’re presenting the traditional Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL (where Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, ...
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge written in 1843, is one of the most familiar literary works in the English language. Though Eleanor Farjeon wrote in an ...
Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, the book's tale of miserly ...
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and ...
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In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...
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