book: A Christmas Carol And Other Stories (Scholastic Classics)

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	• A Christmas Carol And Other Stories (Scholastic Classics) Charles Dickens Franklin Watts, 2006 - 197 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Very similar to the 1938 film

In the spirit of the holidays, I thought I'd pick up this novel because like most people, I have seen the film before I read the book and enjoyed the movie immensely, and I am a fan of Dickens' other writings (i.e. Great Expectations, David Copperfield). With that said, I knew what the novel was about and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I am suprised to see how the movie adapted itself so closely to the original story (most movies adapted from novels can be so different than the book), and I was suprised to see how short the novel was (you can pretty much finish the novel as quickly as you could watch the movie-- perhaps even faster!) Anyway, the only difference is that in the novel Scrooge never visits the Cratchits. That's the only thing Hollywood did to make the audience feel even better. It's a great read; one I'd recommend to read to a child before bedtime during the Holiday season (a few pages at a time over a few days or weeks of course, the novel isn't THAT short.)
As a bonus, The Chimes and The Haunted Man (more holiday short stories) are included in this book. They are similar in the structure of A Christmas Carol, but are not as universally touching nor are they as well written. The Chimes is particular in its story concerning the poor and wretched in England, and the Haunted Man was just vague and hard to read. You don't get nearly as attached to the characters in either of these short stories so if you're getting the book for A Christmas Carol, it's likely you will not enjoy the other stories. If you are a Dickens fan, you'll most likely read them and judge for yourself.

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An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts, is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: The Chimes,in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells, and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys.

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