A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classics)
Book by Charles Dickens
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ASIN : 0553212443 Publisher : Bantam Classics (November 1, 1986) Language : English Mass Market Paperback : 112 pages ISBN-10 : 9780553212440 ISBN-13 : 978-0553212440 Reading age : 6+ years, from customers Lexile measure : 900L , Merry Christmas, everyone! “Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!” With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a very special holiday experience. It is the one book that every year will warm our hearts with favorite memories of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—and will remind us with laughter and tears that the true Christmas spirit comes from giving with love. With a heartwarming account of Dickens’ first reading of the Carol, and a biographical sketch. Read more
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Dickens’ marvelous and uplifting tale is available in this very economically-priced edition, The story itself is familiar to nearly all, having been the subject of numerous filmed versions. But I would like to point out that, contrary to some “modern” interpretations, Dickens’ book really DOES have a strong “Christian” focus. For instance, when we first encounter Scrooge, he is described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” (Pg. 2) And when we first encounter Tiny Tim, his father is bringing him from church, where Tim “hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.” (Pg. 38) Dickens says, “Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!” (Pg. 61) And as we all know, Tim’s signature line is, “God Bless Us, Every One!” (Pg. 40) Scrooge’s nephew greets him saying, “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” (Pg. 3) Scrooge famously retorts, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly in his heart.” (Pg. 3-4) But his nephew replied, “though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] HAS done me good, and WILL do me good; and I say, God bless it!” (Pg. 4) Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley tells him, “Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business… Why did I walk through the crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!” (Pg. 14) When Scrooge hopes that Tiny Tim will be spared death, the Ghost tells him, “‘If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’ Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit…” The Ghost adds, “Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.” (Pg. 40) When Scrooge is shown the joyful party at his nephew’s house, his nephew says to his fellow partygoers of Scrooge, “his offenses carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him… I am sorry for him… Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always… the consequence of his taking a dislike to us… is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm.” (Pg. 45) Ultimately, of course, Scrooge pledges, “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Pg. 62) And “to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew… and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well.” (Pg. 68) This is a timeless and wonderful story---that EVERYONE should read.
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