A Christmas Carol (full title, A Christmas Carol: In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novel by Charles Dickens about miserly, cold, unfeeling, old Ebenezer Scrooge and his secular conversation and redemption after being visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve.
I quote this saying from Charles Dickens:
I have endeavored in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful friend and servant, c.d.
December, 1843.
The book was first published on 19th Dec. 1843 and quickly met with commercial success and critical acclaim. The tale been viewed as an indictment of nineteenth century industrial capitalism.
A Christmas Carol remains popular, has never been out of print and has been adapted many times to cinema and television.
Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009) is the latest film adaptation of Charles Dickens 1843 story of the same name. The film was written to the screen and directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle age and old man and as three of the ghosts who haunt Scrooge.
The 3D (three-dimensional)film was produced through the process of performance capture. It had been released on 4th Nov. 2009. It had its world premiere in London at the same time of the switching on of the annual Oxford and Regent Street Christmas lights, which in 2009 had a Dickens theme. In its opening weekend, the film gross was $30,000,000. It has grossed $115,249,331 in the USA and 118,200,000 in foreign markets. The worldwide gross reached $233,449,331 since being released.
Jim Carrey said that he had a good time portraying some of Scrooges inhuman company, in particular the bombastic, bacchanalian ghost of Christmas Present.
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Israa A . Ameen
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