A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella subtitled "A Ghost Story of Christmas," tells the transformative tale of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley and three Christmas Spirits (Past, Present, Future) who show him the error of his ways, leading to his redemption into a kind, generous man, making it a timeless morality story about compassion and change.