I read this book every year during the Christmas season. It was a gift to me and I do enjoy it. I can't read it in one night, like some people do, but I read it right before Christmas.
The book is strikingly similar to the movie.
It's about an old man named Scrooge. Who is greedy and very selfish. He gives to no one, not even himself.
One evening when going home he passes some very strange things. When he gets home, he sees his old partner Marley in the doorknob. When getting settled he hears chains and moaning and then Marley enters his room to bring him a message about how he must change or suffer the same agonizing fate he is forever to endure. He will be visited by three ghosts to help change him .
Although Scrooge thinks this is a bunch of bull, there is something about what his friend tells him that strikes him. The only main difference between the movie from 1980 and the book is that the ghost of Christmas Past is a guy in the book. He brings Scrooge to his childhood past in the orphanage twice then to when he was an apprentice and when his lady leaves him.
The Ghost of Christmas past shows him Bob Cratchit and his nephew and then to the homeless and poor and showing them how their lives are miserable and how they still are happy in them through it.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge an image he doesn't quite seem to understand. People are robbing a house that is empty and selling what it has in it. He also sees Bob Cratchit's son has died and the family suffers. He begs to see who's house was being pillages and finds it was his own and he is dead and no one came to his funeral.
When he gets back to the real world he does what he can to make people happy, his nephew, his employee, the poor. He is a giving man and not greedy anymore.
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