A Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics) 圣诞颂歌 ISBN 9780141324524
A Christmas Carol is probably best known now as a storyexploited by Hollywood repeatedly in straight adaptations (Disney抯included) and altered versions such as the Bill Murray comedyScrooged. Regardless of how it is now known it is certainly wellknown, and its anti-hero Scrooge represents curmudgeonly and stingyattitudes outside the context of the book. It was published aChristmas book in 1843 and is quite a simple tale but successfulfor that reason. Scrooge is avaricious, misanthropic and heartless,showing no feeling for the Christmas spirit After he is visited bythe ghost of his former business partner, Marley, he sees visionsof his past, present and future that inspire him to become azealously kind and amiable individual who sends a turkey to hisclerk Bob Cratchit and gives to Christmas charities generously. Itis a somewhat saccharine tale and is not one of Dickens?finer worksbut the story itself is heartening and is a proposed alternative tothe grim and stern Puritan values of the Victorian age.
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