A Christmas Carol -

Charles Dickens

Best Seller

2019

260 páginas

8h 40m

ISBN-10: B0BQGXZ7YN

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, one of several establishments for London's street children. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. There is discussion among academics as to whether this was a fully secular story, or if it is a Christian allegory.
Published on 19 December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. Most critics reviewed the novella favourably. The story was illicitly copied in January 1844; Dickens took legal action against the publishers, who went bankrupt, further reducing Dickens's small profits from the publication. He went on to write four other Christmas stories in subsequent years. In 1849 he began public readings of the story, which proved so successful he undertook 127 further performances until 1870, the year of his death. A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera and other media.

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God bless us every one!

— A Christmas Carol, 1843.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”

Ebenezer Scrooge é um velho rabugento bem como inacessível com todos, e nem sua família ou seu leal funcionário são excessões. Entretanto, após a visita de fantasmas na véspera de Natal, o homem passará a repensar suas ações e entender o real valor da vida.

É simplesmente esplêndido acompanhar uma história de Natal ambientada a quase dois séculos atrás, ainda mais com a cativante maneira de Charles Dickens escrever sobre os eventos sobrenaturais envolvidos— quem diria que fantasmas combinariam tanto com essa data festiva?
Scrooge foi pioneiro em estórias acompanhando a redenção do protagonista birrento graças ao Natal— já que, apesar de suas atitudes questionáveis é capaz de encantar-nos. Importante ressaltar que a forma qual o escritor organiza um diálogo diretamente com o leitor deixa a experiência ainda mais imersiva e agradável.

Encontro-me encantada por essa história, e com o final, que me deixou com o coração preenchido. Um atípico e bom conto natalino! "Os Fantasmas de Scrooge" foi uma adaptação marcante para minha infância, e não poderia estar mais satisfeita de realizar a leitura neste momento.