A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“...Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

“...the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave,”

“... twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.” - Fezziwig's Ball, A Christmas Carol

Ghost of Christmas Past: “He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money; three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?”
Scrooge: “It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he give is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” - The Ghost of Christmas Present, A Christmas Carol

I saw three or four different film versions of A Christmas Carol this year; all very good, but all left out some wonderful things. Only by reading the original do you get the full benefit of Dicken's prose and wisdom.



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