A Christmas Carol: With Original Illustrations In Full Color

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Garry, Jane; El Shamy, Hasan (2005). Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-2953-1. You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day," said Scrooge. "And it comes to the same thing." The name Scrooge became synonymouswith greed and the hatred of Christmas. He was an excellent man of business, but he only cares for money. Davis, Paul (1990a). The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04664-9.

Scrooge is taken to visit his past childhood and then adulthood where he first worked with Mr. Fezziwig. His first love and the eventual downfall of his obsession with gaining wealth. Ultimately the woman he loved wed another. He is shown the family he might have had and mourns the loss of it. A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred. He turns away two men seeking a donation to provide food and heating for the poor and only grudgingly allows his overworked, underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit, Christmas Day off with pay to conform to the social custom.Welch, Bob (2015). 52 Little Lessons from a Christmas Carol. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-1-4002-0675-9.

His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His works are still popular and widely read even today. An easy way to keep the spirit of Christmas alive in your family is to create fun traditions and play together. Taking into consideration the wisdom of our ancestors, I would say the one thing of true value in this life is time spent with those we love.One example of this was the introduction of turkey as the main meat of the Christmas meal. In Britain the tradition had been to eat roast goose, but a change to turkey followed the publication of the book. By 1868 Mrs Beeton, in her Book of Household Management, advised her readers that "A Christmas dinner, with the middle-class of this empire, would scarcely be a Christmas dinner without its turkey." [103]