Never out of print since its initial appearance in 1843, A Christmas
Carol has been adapted countless times to the stage, radio, television,
film and opera. The selfish miser Scrooge's name has become synonymous
with greed and indifference to the welfare of others. His immortal
Christmas eve visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and
Yet to Come have become a cultural fixture and a fundamental part of the
Christmas Holidays around the world.
A Christmas Carol was conceived by the author with the deliberate
intent of shaking his audience with an emotional tale designed to
inspire compassion and charity toward the disadvantaged, especially
children. Scrooge's surreal, spellbinding journey into the meaning of
Christmas, with its climactic insistence that a life lived without love
and charity is no life at all, provides readers with one of literature's
finest, most unforgettable entertainments while celebrating the good in
humanity and providing the world with the most cherished Christmas story
ever written.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of A Christmas Carol is both modern and readable.