Randal Eldon Greene
1 min readDec 15, 2020

Charles Dickens’s short novel A Christmas Carol is the perfect book for the holiday season. Reading the classic after only knowing the story from its various film adaptations was a treat. While the humor came across just about the same, the book offered an emotional impact as only Dickens can provide.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 2018 Calla Editions

He paints spirts stranger than anything film has yet reproduced. . . .the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body.

While the vernacular of early Victorian literature can be a bit rough to get through in spots, the tale is familiar enough that even a young reader can easily reorient themselves back into the story. Purchase your own copy of this Christmas classic on Amazon.

Book image obtained with permission as an Amazon Affiliate.

Randal Eldon Greene
Randal Eldon Greene

Written by Randal Eldon Greene

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