Review: A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens 

Published By: Penguin
Publication Date: December 17, 1843
Date Read: December 24, 2020
Genre: Classics
Source: Bought
Format: Paperback
Pages: 94

From Goodreads:
With A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created a modern fairy tale and shaped our ideas of Christmas. The tale of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of the season by a series of ghostly visitors and given a second chance, was conjured up by Dickens during one of his London night walks, who “wept and laughed” as he composed it. Taken to readers’ hearts for its humour, compassion and message of redemption, it remains its best-loved book.

A Christmas Carol is a book I have read so many times, I can’t even count them. I read this one every year on Christmas Eve but have just never actually reviewed it. I decided that this year would be the year that I finally sat down to do a review of it.

A Christmas Carol is one of the most popular, best loved classics… and rightfully so. I can’t even put into words how much I love this beautiful novella. It’s super short, coming in at under 100 pages and so is a very quick read for me. I can usually get through this in an hour or two. I usually sit right by the christmas tree and read this one and it always gets me feeling festive.

I love the story of Scrooge, it’s such a heartwarming tale of how you can go from being the most cold-hearted character to seeing the error of your ways after being faced with the possibility of a loveless and lonely future. I’ve always loved the story of Scrooge and the three ghosts. First when I was a child from the many movie adaptations, to now as an adult reading the incredible original.

I love A Christmas Carol so much and considering classics can be quite difficult to read, I find this one quite easy reading. If you love the movie adaptations of A Christmas Carol you should definitely give Dickens’ original novella a try. You won’t regret it.

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