A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classics)

I read this every year at Christmas and absolutely love it!

I think the movie entitled The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) is my favorite Christmas movie, but I had not read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which was originally published in December 1843 (Slater xi). According to the scholar of Charles Dickens, Micheal Slater, Charles Dickens did not invent the traditions or morality of Christmas in England in the mid-19th Century, but A Christmas Carol was written in such a way that heavily influenced how the English people viewed Christmas after 1843 (Slater xiii). The Goodreads reviewer named Warren Nelson is correct that the novella is spookier than the Muppets movie version whose screenplay was written by Jerry Juhl. The Muppet Christmas Carol was directed by Brian Henson. The Muppet Christmas Carol was written for younger children, so I think the filmmakers made the correct decision. I believe that Micheal Caine is an excellent Ebenezer Scrooge. After I read the novella, I still believe that Micheal Craine is an excellent version of Scrooge. A movie version of A Christmas Carol that I have seen that keeps some of the spookier elements of the novel is the animated version starring Jim Carrey, which is titled Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009). The movie was written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Reading Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was an interesting experience after knowing the story without actually reading the novel for many years. Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was quite readable. Works Cited: Dickens, Charles. 2003. “A Christmas Carol.” In A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings. Edited by Micheal Slater, 27-118. New York: Penguin Books. Slater, Michael. 2003. “Introduction.” In A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens, xi-xxxi. New York: Penguin Books.

Very heart warming

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I saw the movie many times before I read the book, and the movie is very similar. Reading the book was a bit more enjoyable though because you get more of Scrooge's internal world. It's such a feel-good treat.