Description
Date Published : 2009-11-10T00:00:01Z
Authors: Dickens, Charles
Edition: Film tie-in ed
Language : en_US
Dimensions: Height: 7.79526 Inches, Length: 5.07873 Inches, Weight: 0.29982867632 Pounds, Width: 0.3937 Inches
ISBN :9780141193663
Publisher : Penguin Classic
‘merry Christmas! . . . Every Idiot Who Goes About With ‘merry Christmas’ On His Lips, Should Be Boiled With His Own Pudding’ It Is The Twenty Fourth Of December. Mean Old Ebenezer Scrooge Sits In His Freezing Cold Office Shouting ‘bah! Humbug!’ At Anyone Who Dares Wish Him A Merry Christmas. But That Night The Miser Has A Terrifying Visitor. Marley, His Dead Business Partner Who Must Wander The Earth Forever To Pay For His Sins, Comes With A Warning. Scrooge Will Be Haunted By Three More Spirits. The Ghosts Of Christmas Past, Present And Future Arrive To Show Scrooge The Hardship He Has Caused. Is He Doomed To The Same Fate As Marley? Or Can He Mend His Ways And Learn To Celebrate The True Meaning Of Christmas? ‘unforgettable . . . Dickens Created Our Sense Of What Christmas Should Be.’ Simon Callow, Daily Express ‘a Hilarious And Moving Ghost Story . . . Scrooge Is One Of The Greatest Characters Of Fiction.’ John Mortimer ‘sublime . . . An Exquisite Gem.’ Sunday Times
