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Christmas Carol, A

American  

noun

  1. a story (1843) by Dickens.

A Christmas Carol Cultural  

  1. (1843) A story by Charles Dickens about the spiritual conversion of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge. At first, Scrooge scoffs at the idea of Christmas with a “Bah, humbug!” After the appearance of the ghost of his stingy partner, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, Scrooge reforms and offers help to the crippled boy Tiny Tim, son of Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit.

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A Christmas Carol A miser has a change of heart in Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday fable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2016

Chuck Fischer, author of “Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book’” will lead the program and will sign copies of his book for an hour afterward.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011

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