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    Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol
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    Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol

    By Raja Sharma

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    The story revolves around the central character Ebenezer Scrooge. He happens to be a stingy and irascible character. With the progression of the story, he goes through ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation.

    This significant transformation takes place after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

    When the novella got published, it soon met with instant success and critical acclaim. It has always been one of the favourite novellas read by children all around the world.

    It was the period of early Victorian era in Britain when the book was published. The Christmas traditions were already being forgotten by the people in the country. The book brought back the nostalgic interest in those forgotten Christmas tradition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateMay 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301110742
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: A Christmas Carol

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      Chapter One: Introduction to A Christmas Carol

      A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most popular books written by him. It is a novella that was first published on 19th of December, 1843, by Chapman & Hall.

      The story revolves around the central character Ebenezer Scrooge. He happens to be a stingy and irascible character. With the progression of the story, he goes through ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation.

      This significant transformation takes place after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

      When the novella got published, it soon met with instant success and critical acclaim. It has always been one of the favourite novellas read by children all around the world.

      It was the period of early Victorian era in Britain when the book was published. The Christmas traditions were already being forgotten by the people in the country. The book brought back the nostalgic interest in those forgotten Christmas tradition.

      In those days new Christmas customs such as Christmas tree and greeting cards were being introduced and they were gaining a very rapid popularity, and in the process of these new found interests, people were going away from the customs such as carol singing, etc.

      Since Charles Dickens had a very sad and uninteresting childhood, it is assumed that this interest in writing a book on the subject of Christmas was inspired from the things which he had missed.

      There seem to be various sources for this story, but it is also assumed that the author’s sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales that he had heard during his

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