A Christmas Carol (annotated): unabridged edition with introduction and commentary

A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas commonly known as A Christmas Carol is a novel by Charles Dickens first published in 1843. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder gentler man. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past such as carols as well as new customs such as Christmas trees. With A Christmas Carol Dickens captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. He has been acknowledged as an influence on the modern Western observance of Christmas and inspired several aspects of Christmas such as family gatherings seasonal food and drink dancing games and a festive generosity of spirit.The Commentary and Introduction contains material released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. BackgroundLiterary influencesSocial influencesWriting historyCharactersThemesPublicationReceptionAftermathPerformances and adaptationsLegacy