The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "staves".
Stave one
A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve … Meer weergeven

The central character of A Christmas Carol is Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly London-based businessman, described in the story as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, … Meer weergeven

As the result of the disagreements with Chapman and Hall over the commercial failures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens arranged to pay for the publishing himself, in exchange for a percentage of the profits. Production of A Christmas Carol was not … Meer weergeven

In January 1844 Parley's Illuminated Library published an unauthorised version of the story in a condensed form which they sold for Meer weergeven

The writer Charles Dickens was born to a middle-class family which got into financial difficulties as a result of the spendthrift nature of his father John. In 1824 John was … Meer weergeven

The transformation of Scrooge is central to the story. Davis considers Scrooge to be "a protean figure always in process of reformation"; … Meer weergeven

According to Douglas-Fairhurst, contemporary reviews of A Christmas Carol "were almost uniformly kind". The Illustrated … Meer weergeven