A Christmas Carol
Victorian holiday ghost-story
A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, published in 1843, about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve and transformed into a generous man.
The story has become so culturally embedded that its characters and phrases have entered common usage: a Scrooge is any miserly person, and Bah, humbug! expresses cynical dismissal of sentiment or celebration.
The phrase "a Christmas carol" in lowercase simply refers to any song sung during the Christmas season.
- Tiny TimSickly Victorian street urchin
- pastTime already gone
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- presentGift or current moment
- ghostApparition of the dead
Charles Dickens · Ebenezer Scrooge · Jacob Marley · Victorian England · urban poverty · social reform · child labor · morality · Scrooge · cold heart · charity · United Kingdom · social inequality · novella · ghost stories · holiday spirit · bedchamber · fog
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- British ClassicsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- Holiday EntertainmentHome Alone, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Polar Express, The Nutcracker
- Literary AdaptationsOliver Twist, Les Miserables, Doctor Zhivago, Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island
- Winter StoriesThe Snow Queen, Frosty the Snowman, The Polar Express, The Snowman, Jack Frost
- Short StoriesThe Tell-Tale Heart, The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Black Cat, Rip Van Winkle
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