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. . .ront, which the government at home ought instantly to 'take up.' The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers are made to inquiries, and extravagant actions performed. Thus, Johnson persists in giving Johnson as his baptismal name, and substituting for his ancestral designation the national 'Dam!' Neither can he by any means be brought to recognise the distinction between a portmanteau-key and a passport, but will obstinately persevere in tendering the one when asked for the other. This brings him to the fourth place, in a state of mere idiotcy; and when he is, in the fourth place, cast out at a little door into a howling wilderness of touters, he becomes a lunatic with wild eyes and floating hair until rescued and soothed. If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris.

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Community Reviews

I love A Christmas Carol. Every film adaption from the black and white one to the muppets.
But I have never read the story. So this year I vowed to finally read the original.

Along with a few of Dickens’ other Christmas writings I really enjoyed it.

I won’t bother with a synopsis, as everyone knows

“…there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

This collection of Christmas writings by Charles Dickens contains (of course) “A Christmas Carol” and 7 other stories/essays. Although I was not fond of moments in the collection, overall the animating spirit of

Reread 2023. Hugh Grant narration on audible this year. Although I didn't really like his narration, it wasn't bad. Not my favourite version though.

Annual reread 2022. Every year I try and find a new edition to read or listen to. This year was the audio with Anton Lesser narrating. I enjoyed it, Le

After the introduction to, and before the main tale of A Christmas Carol begins, there are three short stories: Christmas Festivities, The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton, and A Christmas Episode From Master Humphrey’s Clock.
The first is about a family’s Christmas, focusing mostly on the din

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

A classic Christmas tale, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable old man, who is visited by his deceased business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and

A Christmas without Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol seems unthinkable, and therefore it’s appropriate that this Penguin Books edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Dickens is introduced with the well-known anecdote of how a child in London responded to the news of Dicken

[First read: 2010 or thereabouts. 4 stars.
Second read: Christmas 2015. 4 stars.
Third read: Christmas, 2016. 4 stars.]

Ghost stories were the theme of Christmas during Victorian times and it's a tradition that is sorely missed. Charles Dickens is pretty much King of Christmas, and all these stories h

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