Dickens felt it was not so much a Christmas story but a story of the responsibility the rich have to their fellow man. Other stories have tended to focus too much on Scrooge while sometimes ignoring the important allegorical aspects of the tale. Scrooge comes to know the meeting of kindness, charity, and goodwill in this tale of yuletide joy. until one Christmas Eve, three spirits take him on a journey through the past, present and future. As well as the universally loved 'A Christmas Carol', the collection also includes lesser known treasures such as 'The Chimes', 'The Battle of Life', 'The Haunted Man' and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' all packaged in a beautiful hardback edition with jacket. The best-known and best-loved of Dickens tales, A Christmas Carol is the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who hated Christmas. The hungry masses were only alluded to or shown in a cleaned up way in other versions, but here starvation and desolation are ugly and important to the plot and are just as Dickens had intended. Cosy up for a festive reading bonanza with these heart-warming seasonal tales of Christmas by Charles Dickens. I am not saying subsequent versions are bad (the Patrick Stewart version is excellent), but that the Scott version is so perfect and well-crafted that there is simply no need to try again! Scot is the best Scrooge-with malevolence and selfishness in spades! In addition, despite this, there is a deeper humanity about his character and the writers were brilliant to focus so much on the societal aspects of the story as well. Scott they should have stopped making remakes. I have seen many different versions of this story and I think that after the 1984 version with George C.
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