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“A Christmas Carol” Alternatives

For those readers who are all Christmas Carol-ed out, but still need a little Dickens in their life for the holiday, I give you: 

Since A Christmas Carol (1843) was so popular, Dickens continued writing Christmas stories. These are his other four major Christmas books, which contain similar themes to the Carol. Merry Christmas, and enjoy reading! 

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susanandherbooks:

Favourite Covers (Christmas Eve)- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I hope everyone has a Happy Holiday Season.

Hopefully with lots of reading and bookish gifts galore :)

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carolinecrane:

The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992

Favorite Christmas movies

ME TOO OMG.

Same.

I LOVE this movie.

Actual best A Christmas Carol adaptation.

We need to plan to watch this. yes? Yes!

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merrychristmasbaby:

60 Days of Christmas||Day46||Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”

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betterbooktitles: Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

betterbooktitles:

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

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Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901)

For more on the BFI’s Dickens on Screen project seehttp://www.bfi.org.uk/dickens

Produced by the English movie pioneer R.W. Paul, this version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ was thought to be the earliest surviving adaptation of Dickens’ work on film, before the discovery of ‘The Death of Poor Joe’ -http://youtu.be/yqufG89Jlyc. The only known print, held by the BFI, is incomplete, but manages to tell enough of the story for it to be recognisable.

This early cinematic excursion into Dickens’ most popular tale was an ambitious undertaking at the time. Not only did it attempt to tell an 80 page story in five minutes, but it featured impressive trick effects, superimposing Marley’s face over the door knocker and the scenes from his youth over a black curtain in Scrooge’s bedroom. 

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The school is not quite deserted,” said the Ghost. “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
A Christmas Carol, Stave II

rapporter:

Top image: Still from the 1938 film A Christmas Carol with Leo G. Carroll as Jacob Marley’s ghost and Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Bottom image: Frederick Jensen as Mr Micawber in the 1935 film David Copperfield. Micawber is said to be based on Dickens’s father.
Source: The Guardian, “Charles Dickens’s characters come to life – in pictures”.

About Charles Dickens’s Characters:

Dickens’s friend and biographer, John Forster, once said that he made “characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves.”

T. S. Eliot observed that “Dickens’s figures belong to poetry, like figures of Dante or Shakespeare, in that a single phrase, either by them or about them, may be enough to set them wholly before us.”

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Weatherwatch: Dickens on a year of no summer

We owe many things to Charles Dickens, including perhaps our idea of what traditional English winter weather is like. The bitter, pervasive cold and snowy streets in A Christmas Carol leave a strong impression. Dickens certainly experienced some bad winters in his childhood; 1816, when he was four, was called “the year without a summer” due to the eruption of Mount Tambora, and London ponds were icing over by September. The winters of 1819 and 1822 were severe, and in 1829 sections of the Thames were choked with ice after a hard freeze. Records suggest that Dickens may have seen snow falling on six of his first 20 Christmases, and there may have been standing snow on several more.

More comparative literature?

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Proving again that Dickens is everywhere: Samuel Adams’ Old Fezziwig Ale Spicy and bold, a big Christmas cookie of a beer… The rich taste hits the palate with a depth of malt character ranging from sweet toffee and caramel notes to dark, roasty chocolate notes. Then the spices come in full force. Cinnamon, ginger and orange peel dance on the tongue bringing with them the celebratory spirit of the season.  I tried this a couple of times during the holiday season purely out of a scholarly interest in Dickens and really enjoyed it. It’s in the Sam Adams Winter Classics Variety Pack, for those readers (of age) who are interested. 

Proving again that Dickens is everywhere: Samuel Adams’ Old Fezziwig Ale

Spicy and bold, a big Christmas cookie of a beer… The rich taste hits the palate with a depth of malt character ranging from sweet toffee and caramel notes to dark, roasty chocolate notes. Then the spices come in full force. Cinnamon, ginger and orange peel dance on the tongue bringing with them the celebratory spirit of the season. 

I tried this a couple of times during the holiday season purely out of a scholarly interest in Dickens and really enjoyed it. It’s in the Sam Adams Winter Classics Variety Pack, for those readers (of age) who are interested.