Scrooge, an old miser, is "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,
scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner". He hates Christmas, calling
it "humbug". The tale begins on a "cold, bleak, biting" Christmas Eve in
London, exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge's business
partner Jacob Marley. At home that night, Scrooge is visited by Marley's
ghost, who is forever cursed to wander the earth dragging a network of
heavy chains, forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness.

Check out to see how this and three other meetings with the spirits
of Christmas changes a hopeless creature's life for good in this
all-time classic, which have never been out of print.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic.
He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is
regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.