Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843, remains one of the most widely discussed moral stories associated with the Christmas season. It was written during a period of ...

Who doesn’t love the scents of the holiday season? Gingerbread and cinnamon, firewood and pine, clove and nutmeg, hockey team laundry bag. That last one, in case it wasn’t immediately clear, could ...

Has any story outside the Bible been adapted and performed more times than A Christmas Carol? The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the four ghosts who set out to change his miserly ways has been reworked ...

’Tis the season and we probably have all known someone with some of the characteristics of the fictional Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens describes ...

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Boo! Ghosts have been a staple of fiction for centuries, and certainly they appear in plenty of movies and TV shows. Sometimes they are scary, sometimes they are funny — and on occasion, they are even ...

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It's a Christmas classic, but not as we know it. Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol has been reimagined by playwright Marie Jones in the setting of Victorian Belfast. It features familiar ...

No, this is not a Mailbox, but controversial comments from Simon Jordan. Jordan has no sympathy for Alexander Isak after the Liverpool striker suffered a leg break, claiming it is “karma” for forcing ...

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