01378nam 22002893u 450 991016067280332120230803040953.01-304-03413-5(CKB)3710000000508612(EBL)1669946(EXLCZ)99371000000050861220151123d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Christmas Carol[electronic resource]Sheba Blake Publishing20131 online resource (254 p.)Description based upon print version of record. Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol is the story of the mean and pusillanimous Ebenezer Scrooge, whose mind gets blown after he's visited by the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Inspired by the ghastly conditions in which the poorest children of London lived and worked, Dickens wanted to do something to change the situation, but was at odds about how to help matters. He was going to write a pamphlet that was an appeal to reform, but after giving a speech to a charity in Manchester the plot for A Christmas Carol came to him, which he decided would deliver a morDickens Charles154882AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910160672803321Christmas carol13136UNINA