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"Bah!
Humbug!"
The following books will introduce you to Ebenezer Scrooge,
who said these words in Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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- Dickens, Charles. A
Christmas Carol, in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of
Christmas (John Leech, Illus.). Penguin USA, 1990.
- Leech's illustrations, several in color, are the
highlight of this beautifully produced little
paperback edition.
- Dickens, Charles. A
Christmas Carol. Bantam Classics, 1986.
- This paperback includes an appended essay
recreating Dickens' first public performance of
his tale, as well as a biographical sketch.
- Dickens, Charles. A
Christmas Carol (Arthur Rackham, Illus.). Everyman's
Library, 1994.
- Dickens, Charles. A
Christmas Carol (Audio Cassette). Simon &
Schuster, 1994.
- Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard of Star Trek:
The Next Generation) has played Scrooge on
stage as an annual event for a number of years.
This cassette captures his crusty performance.
- Dickens, Charles. A
Christmas Carol: With 45 Lost Gustave Doré Engravings
(1861) and 130 Other Victorian Illustrations. McE
Publishing, 1996.
- Chesterton, G. K. Criticisms
& Appreciations of the Works of Charles Dickens.
Everyman's Library, 1992.
- Chesterton argues that Dickens is one of the few
writers able to portray happiness successfully in
his fiction. Interestingly, he shows that the
story of Scrooge's Christmas eve transformation
maximizes all the necessary ingredients.
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