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  Christmas Carol, A

  noun

  a story (1843) by Dickens.
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  A Christmas Carol

  (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.

Christmas Carol, A

American  

noun

1. a story (1843) by Dickens.

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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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Christmas Carol, A A Christmas Carol

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

First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol tells the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas, but is transformed after a series of ghostly visits.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

A gravestone for Ebenezer Scrooge, left behind after the filming of a 1984 movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol, has been smashed.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024

Born in South Shields, Meeks was a star of both screen and stage, performing in The Producers, Chicago and A Christmas Carol, as well as a West End production of Love Never Dies.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023

Knight's "Great Expectations" isn't for the prudish or for purists, which those who saw his rendition of "A Christmas Carol" probably guessed.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023

I have looked through the Philosopher's Window, and don't see much, except perhaps a reminiscence of A Christmas Carol.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 by Various