A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Summary

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1843. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner and three spirits representing Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Through these supernatural encounters, Scrooge confronts his lonely past, witnesses the joy he's missing, and glimpses a bleak future. Can a lifetime of greed and selfishness be transformed in a single night? (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• Christmas stories
• Ghost stories
• London (England) — Fiction
• Misers — Fiction
• Poor families — Fiction
• Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) — Fiction
• Sick children — Fiction

Bookshelves

• British Literature
• Classics of Literature
• Novels
• Children's Literature
• Christmas