Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published on 19 December 1843, met with instant success and critical acclaim. It tells
the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his
transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of
his former business partner Jacob Marley and
the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
After celebrating the
joy and charity of Christmas, A Christmas Carol is above all a
condemnation of 19th-century Victorian England's division between the rich and the poor. London was a great world power, rich from industry and colonial
influence, yet poverty devastated its streets and factories. Continue reading here.
