![]() The Ghost is one of three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption. The second, third, and fourth staves of A Christmas Carol are devoted to each of the three spirits of Christmas.First, the Ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge and reminds him of his lonely childhood at boarding school, and the kindness shown to the young Scrooge by his first employer, Mr Fezziwig (whom we see at a Christmas ball). But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. The Ghost of Christmas Past is a fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens 1843 story A Christmas Carol.It was filmed in London between January and May 1970 and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge.The films score was composed by Leslie Bricusse and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you! Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine. ![]() What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart! A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous 1843 novella of the same name.The film was directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C.
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