The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave (chapter) as a greedy and stingy businessman who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts "each in its turn" who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation. The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to the scenes of his boyhood and youth which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several radically differing scenes (a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the family feast of Scrooge's near-impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse among other sites) in order to evince from the miser a sense of responsibility for his fellow man. The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed. Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what may be.".
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call number/section: 1000, 741.5, 6, 823, 920, 394, 813, 394.2
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Editions
Dickens, Charles
Random House (1990)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Little Simon (1983)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 6
Dickens, Charles
Viking (2000)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Harper Collins (2009)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 5
Dickens, Charles
Saddleback Pub. (2006)
A cartoon-style retelling of Charles Dickens' classic holiday story about a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas after three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Scholastic (1962)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 3
Dickens, Charles
W. Morrow and Co. (1996)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
(1963)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 5
Dickens, Charles
Scholastic (1999)
Through the intervention of three ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.
Schools: 8
Dickens, Charles
Puffin (2001)
Presents an unabridged edition of the classic story in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 2
Dickens, Charles
(1977)
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
A.A. Knofp (1994)
Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Picture Book Studio (1988)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Dover Publications (1991)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Lippincott (1915)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Bantam Books (1997)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Aladdin Paperbacks (2004)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 30
Dickens, Charles
Washington Square Press (1967)
Schools: 2
Dickens, Charles
Creative Education (1984)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Pendulum (1978)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Watermill Press (1993)
"Bah! Humbug!" Ebenezer Scrooge has no use for Christmas. Scrooge hates Christmas cheer, and the spirit of giving. He is a miser a cold and heartless old man. Until one night...when Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Barnes & Noble (2003)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
SoHo Books (2012)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Goodtimes Home Video (1995)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Puffin (2008)
Presents an unabridged edition of the classic story in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 4
Dickens, Charles
Watermill (1980)
Schools: 2
Dickens, Charles
Warner Home Video (2005)
Stars Reginald Owen as the Victorian London miser who has a change of heart after visits from three spirits on Christmas Eve.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Madison Marketing Limited (1989)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Scholastic (1843)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Pocket (1939)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Unicorn Pub. House (1987)
Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) (2014)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 2
Dickens, Charles
s.n.] (1986)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2010)
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it is too late.
Schools: 0
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Grosset & Dunlap
The tale of an old miser, Scrooge, who through dreams of ghosts finds the true spirit of Christmas and bestows his joy on his harassed clerk, Bob Crachit, and Crachit's crippled son, Tiny Tim.
Schools: 0
(1981)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
(1950)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Crown (1957)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
W. E. Rudge (1930)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Puffin Classics
The well-known tale about the miser, Scrooge, the poor but brave Cratchit family, and the ghost who saw to it that Scrooge changed his miserable ways.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
[s.n.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Atheneum (1966)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Lippincott Co (1964)
Schools: 0
Dickens
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Ebenezer Scrooge and Ghosts.
Schools: 0
Ryder, Joanne
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Walter J. Black, Inc. (1932)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Atheneum (1966)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Atheneum (1966)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
World 1961
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Prestwick House (2013)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Macmillan (1966)
A new edition of the traditional Christmas ghost story with critical comments and discussion on both the story and Dickens' reading of it.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Perpetua Books (1960)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Mission Audio (2011)
Victorian novelist Charles Dickens presents one of the greatest Christmas tales ever told. Three ghosts take the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a tour of his own life in the hopes of reawakening his Christmas spirit, before he meets the fate of his deceased partner Jacob Marley.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Franklin Watts (1968)
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave (chapter) as a greedy and stingy businessman who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts "each in its turn" who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation. The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to the scenes of his boyhood and youth which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several radically differing scenes (a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the family feast of Scrooge's near-impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse among other sites) in order to evince from the miser a sense of responsibility for his fellow man. The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed. Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what may be.".
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 2
Charles Dickens
Signet Classics (1010)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 3
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 7
Dickens, Charles
An abridgement of Dickens's beloved tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 25
Ponti, James
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the three spirits of Christmas, who show him there is more to life than money and help him discover the true meaning of the Christmas season.
Schools: 3
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A new edition of the traditional Christmas ghost story with critical comments and discussion on both the story and Dickens' reading of it.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 0
Carrey, Jim
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it is too late.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A complete, illustrated edition of Charles Dickens's tale in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 7
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Grosset & Dunlap
The tale of an old miser, Scrooge, who through dreams of ghosts finds the true spirit of Christmas and bestows his joy on his harassed clerk, Bob Crachit, and Crachit's crippled son, Tiny Tim.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Viking-Penguin, Inc.
Schools: 0
(1981)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
s.n.] (1986)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2010)
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it is too late.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Puffin Classics
The well-known tale about the miser, Scrooge, the poor but brave Cratchit family, and the ghost who saw to it that Scrooge changed his miserable ways.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
(1950)
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Chronicle Books (2015)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
[s.n.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 1
Tavner, Gill
An illustrated retelling in which Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas through the intervention of four ghosts.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Charles Dickens' classic holiday story of a lonely, bitter man who learns that love, generosity, and laughter are the best gifts of all.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Puffin Classics
The well-known tale about the miser, Scrooge, the poor but brave Cratchit family, and the ghost who saw to it that Scrooge changed his miserable ways.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dover Publications, Inc. (2017)
Charles Dickens' classic tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
A new edition of the traditional Christmas ghost story with critical comments and discussion on both the story and Dickens' reading of it.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Applesauce Press (2023)
"Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors in this illustrated chapter storybook for young readers"--OCLC.
Schools: 1