A Christmas Carol (edit title)

Gli... edited the quotations of A Christmas Carol 10 hours ago.

• Added a quotation: “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.”Charles Dickens

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Christmas Carol 12 hours ago.

• MarleyIn A Christmas Carol, Dickens shows us a cross-section of London society, from the very rich to the very poor, at the time of year when the gulf between rich and poor was dead: to begin with.most visible and felt most deeply.

Amanda submitted a request to combine 163 books, including A Christmas Carol, 14 hours ago.

Amanda edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of A Christmas Carol 15 hours ago.

• Added: Ghostly trio attempts attitude adjustment on avaricious old man.

Amanda edited the glossary of A Christmas Carol 15 hours ago.

• Added the definition of Humbug: Nonsense, rubbish; used to express disbelief or disgust; something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.

Amanda edited the glossary of A Christmas Carol 15 hours ago.

• Added the definition of Almshouse: Privately funded lodgings for the poor, as opposed to the workhouse, which was publicly funded.
• Added the definition of Blind man's buff: Popular parlor game in which the contestant is blindfolded and then must catch another player and then guess who he had caught. The game dates from ancient times.

Amanda edited the characters of A Christmas Carol 15 hours ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters
• Added the description of Ebenezer Scrooge: The owner of a accountant's office in London. A miser with no Christmas spirit.
• marked the description of Ebenezer Scrooge as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Bob Cratchit: Employed by Scrooge as his clerk.
• marked the description of Bob Cratchit as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Tiny Tim: The youngest son of Bob Cratchit, a crippled child.
• marked the description of Tiny Tim as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Jacob Marley: Scrooge's deceased business partner.
• marked the description of Jacob Marley as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Ghost of Christmas Past: The first ghost to visit Scrooge.
• marked the description of The Ghost of Christmas Past as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Ghost of Christmas Present: The second ghost to visit Scrooge.
• marked the description of The Ghost of Christmas Present as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: The third and final ghost to visit Scrooge.
• marked the description of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come as not a spoiler

Amanda edited the quotations of A Christmas Carol 15 hours ago.

• Added a quotation: “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.”
• Added a quotation: “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
• Added a quotation: “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. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”Scrooge
• Added a quotation: “God bless us every one!”Tiny Tim