A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $1.00 You Save: $5.95 (86%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of A Christmas Carol
Book Review: A Christmas Carol
Summary: 5 Stars
The story is a classic which has been re-interpreted so many times in film, both drama and musical, and even A Mickey Mouse version. But nothing beats the original and it's a great one to read aloud at Christmas, and you can select parts of it as each chapter is self-contained. That's how Dickens was used to writing and publishing, so his books are almost better read serial style.
I purchased this particular copy for someone who was in jail and the redemption theme of the story is perfect for this purpose, I think, without being preachy. Scrooge himself was in a self-imposed prison.
Book Review: A Christmas Carol
Summary: 5 Stars
Very nice format than other types of books. Fast shipping and good customer service.Book Review: A Classic for Christmas!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was shocked to see that this paperback version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was only 57 pages...needless to say, I finished the book in a day!Book Review: A classic, for sure...
Summary: 4 Stars
I think everyone has seen at least 3 versions of this in movie form (I know I have!) but how many have read the story? I hadn't so I grabbed this to read to have something with a little holiday spirit. It's interesting. I guess because I'm used to seeing the movies, which they have to flesh out a bit and use rich colors and holiday cheeriness, I wasn't expecting the story to be so... simple.
The language (from the mid 1800s I believe) can be a bit challenging for those of us who need a little help here and there with anything beyond the modern English language, but it really wasn't too bad. I enjoyed it, but it was hard for me not to compare it to the movies and put faces to the various actors who have played the parts.
It's still definitely worth a read. You can get it free from several sources on the 'net or from Amazon, of course. Give a whirl, but be prepared to see Disney characters in your head at times ;)
Book Review: Charming and engaging in it's original
Summary: 5 Stars
The story, about a tight fisted bitter and selfish miser in 19th century London, who despises all that brings joy and comfort, has a plethora of adaptations but is best in it's original.
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by three ghosts who show him the evil of his ways and its consequences.
A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens's most famous narratives, and written in lively, intelligent, penetrating and witty prose, a prime example of Dickens's literary genius.
Certainly there is the very strong theme, for which Dickens works are well known, about social injustice and poverty, which we read in such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Hard Times.
It is also a ghost story for which Dickens also showed a flare, although his other ghost stories are less well known but equally enthralling.
Essentially the story revived the spirit and message of Christmas and contains a powerful social message about those members of the wealthier classes who shun responsibility for the less fortunate people in their country.
Such pearls as the following light up this story:
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, which if persevered in, must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change".
Charming and engaging in it's original.
More A Christmas Carol reviews:
1 2
1 2