A Christmas Carol
Summary:
Scrooge is a stingy old businessman who doesn’t like Christmas. He doesn’t have time for Christmas Parties. He doesn’t give money to collectors. His employer Bob Cratchit asks on Christmas evening if he can go home earlier, and then Scrooge tells him no, but come earlier tomorrow.
Seven years ago Scrooge partner Jacob Marley died. He now runs the business without him.
When he wants to sleep on Christmas evening he sees Marley appears who warn him because he did allot of bad things. He also tells that the same night 3 ghosts will appear. 12 o’clock the first ghost appears and takes Scrooge to his past. They go to his birthplace and to his workplace. The ghost tells him that he did bad things then too. And that he didn’t cared about Christmas too. 1 o’clock the second ghost comes. He takes him too Cratchit his son Tim. And shows him that he is very sick. Scrooge wonders if he will die, but the ghost tells him that he won’t die. The third ghost comes on 2 o’clock. He shows him his own dead and his own grave. But he also shows that almost everybody is happy that he died. Then Scrooge woke up and his life was suddenly changed. He let a big turkey delivering at tiny Tim’s house and Bob Cratchit gets a higher salary. Scrooge becomes some kind of a second father of Tim. And further they live long and prosper.
Charles Dickens:
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classical English literature. He is the quintessential Victorian author: his epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classical English literature. He is the quintessential Victorian author: his epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with The Mirror of Parliament and The True Sun. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited Sketches by Boz. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful Pickwick Papers, and from that point on there was no looking back.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including Household Words and All Year Round, wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel Mystery of Edwin Drood.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan and died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
My opinion:
I think this a very nice and beautiful book. It wasn’t too big, and that was my biggest motivation to read it. Because when I have a big English book in front of me. I don’t want to read it at all! I also liked it to read something about the author. Because he is very famous, and I have heard of him but I had never read something of him. And the movie of this book was also nice.
Summary:
Scrooge is a stingy old businessman who doesn’t like Christmas. He doesn’t have time for Christmas Parties. He doesn’t give money to collectors. His employer Bob Cratchit asks on Christmas evening if he can go home earlier, and then Scrooge tells him no, but come earlier tomorrow.
Seven years ago Scrooge partner Jacob Marley died. He now runs the business without him.
When he wants to sleep on Christmas evening he sees Marley appears who warn him because he did allot of bad things. He also tells that the same night 3 ghosts will appear. 12 o’clock the first ghost appears and takes Scrooge to his past. They go to his birthplace and to his workplace. The ghost tells him that he did bad things then too. And that he didn’t cared about Christmas too. 1 o’clock the second ghost comes. He takes him too Cratchit his son Tim. And shows him that he is very sick. Scrooge wonders if he will die, but the ghost tells him that he won’t die. The third ghost comes on 2 o’clock. He shows him his own dead and his own grave. But he also shows that almost everybody is happy that he died. Then Scrooge woke up and his life was suddenly changed. He let a big turkey delivering at tiny Tim’s house and Bob Cratchit gets a higher salary. Scrooge becomes some kind of a second father of Tim. And further they live long and prosper.
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classical English literature. He is the quintessential Victorian author: his epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classical English literature. He is the quintessential Victorian author: his epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with The Mirror of Parliament and The True Sun. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited Sketches by Boz. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful Pickwick Papers, and from that point on there was no looking back.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including Household Words and All Year Round, wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel Mystery of Edwin Drood.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan and died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
My opinion:
I think this a very nice and beautiful book. It wasn’t too big, and that was my biggest motivation to read it. Because when I have a big English book in front of me. I don’t want to read it at all! I also liked it to read something about the author. Because he is very famous, and I have heard of him but I had never read something of him. And the movie of this book was also nice.
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