A Christmas Carol - Dickens, Charles
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What if three ghosts take up upon themselves to show you the error of your ways? Ebenezer Scrooge is a man with no friends. He is a horribly mean, miserable and bitter old man. He does not love or respect anyone and is cruel to all. But things take a drastic turn for him when three ghosts take him on a journey like no other. He meets his past, present and future on one cold Christmas Eve and learns how he should live a good and happy life.

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What if three ghosts take up upon themselves to show you the error of your ways? Ebenezer Scrooge is a man with no friends. He is a horribly mean, miserable and bitter old man. He does not love or respect anyone and is cruel to all. But things take a drastic turn for him when three ghosts take him on a journey like no other. He meets his past, present and future on one cold Christmas Eve and learns how he should live a good and happy life.
Autorenporträt
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.