students' presentation: a christmas carol 2
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Charles John Huffam Dickens
(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)
was the most popular English novelist
of theVictorian era.
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A Christmas Carol is a novella
by English author Charles Dickens
first published by Chapman & Hall
on 17 December 1843
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First edition cover
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The story tells of sour and stingy
Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological,
ethical, and emotional transformation
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after the supernatural visitations
of Jacob Marley
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and the Ghost of Christmas Past
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Ghost of Christmas Present
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Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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He never had any more conversations with spirits, but kept Christmas cheerfully,and lived a happy life.
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He became as good a friend,employer and man,as anyone in London or in the world.
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Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied but are principally the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.
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Dickens began to writeA Christmas Carol
in October 1843, and completed the bookin six weeks.
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The book received immediate critical acclaim.
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London literary magazine the Athenaeum declared it, "A tale to make the reader laugh and cry—to open his hands, and open his heart to charity even toward the uncharitable
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Dickens wrote in the wake of British government changes to the welfare system known as the Poor Laws, changes which required among other things, welfare applicants to "work" on treadmills.
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“A Christmas Carol” – this is a very interesting novella!!!
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Charles Dickens
died on June 9th, 1870
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is buried in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.
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