Excellent post about the most wonderful Dickens book “A Christmas Carol” from the always intriguing Interesting Literature blog!
The surprising story behind Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas tale A Christmas Carol was published over 170 years ago, in 1843. Since then, there have been countless stage, screen, and radio adaptations of the classic story. The first film adaptation was a short silent movie version in 1901, titled Scrooge; or, Marley’s Ghost. There have been opera and ballet versions, an all-black musical called Comin’ Uptown (1979), and even a 1973 mime adaptation for the BBC starring Marcel Marceau. The Muppets, Mickey Mouse, and Mr Magoo have all featured in adaptations of the book.
It wasn’t the first Christmas story Dickens wrote. It wasn’t even the first Christmas ghost story Dickens wrote. He’d already written ‘The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton’, featuring miserly Gabriel Grub, an inset tale in Dickens’s first ever published novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836-7). The tale shares many…
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings 
Dec 17, 2013 @ 23:56:42
I love the illustration and what I’ve read of this Interesting Lit post. I am not as keen on Dickens’ Christmas books as some, but I do want to reread one. (All the versions of the Scrooge films are out of the library, so I must read…)
Dec 18, 2013 @ 08:59:04
He does lapse into the saccharine at times, but A Christmas Carol is always good! I read it last December and thought it was perfect!