A truly classic ghost story told through the medium of Christmas and its meaning. Depicting Scrooge at his very worst and his best after redemption.
The combined qualities of the realist and the idealist which Dickens possessed to a remarkable degree, together with his naturally jovial attitude toward life in general, seem to have given him a remarkably happy feeling toward Christmas, though the privations and hardships of his boyhood could have allowed him but little real experience with this day of days. In this story he portrays the redemption of a miserly old man called Scrooge through the Christmas period until he is entirely full of the Christmas spirit.
