Book Byte #360 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

The Original Unabridged Illustrated Classic by Charles Dicken

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author

“Is it fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

“No space of regret can make amends for one's life opportunity misused”

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. 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. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea

The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless tale of redemption and the transformative power of kindness. It follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and cold-hearted man, as he is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These spectral encounters reveal to Scrooge the pain he has caused others, the joy he has missed, and the dire fate that awaits him if he continues on his selfish path. Deeply moved by these revelations, Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning a changed man, embracing generosity, compassion, and the true spirit of Christmas.

And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!