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How did A Christmas Carol come to be? - BBC Culture Sounds flippant, but this book is bitesize, and you can even read it in one day, as it is only 85 pages long, in 5 'staves.' (staves to highlight the feel of a carol and the joyousness of the novella's text, as we are using for this) Small, but very filling, like a helping of Christmas pud. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. The New Monthly Magazine praised the story, but thought the book's physical excessesthe gilt edges and expensive bindingkept the price high, making it unavailable to the poor. that I think can be used in ways that really sparks their word consciousness. It is easy to recognise many of the more challenging terms in the novella, but when you take time to mark the text to find the difficult language you recognise the linguistic barriers students face. This fits neatly with the description of Scrooge in Stave 4 as an old screw a slang term for a miser. The report took the form of a compilation of interviews with childrencompiled by a journalist friend of Dickensthat detailed their crushing labors. Did you knowThe Internet Movie Database lists more than 100 versions ofA Christmas Carol,including a video game, a 1908 short starring Tom Ricketts (an English actor who also reportedly directed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood), and the 2015 TV-movieA Christmas Carol and Zombies. Thank you. [110][111] The writer James Joyce considered that Dickens took a childish approach with A Christmas Carol, producing a gap between the nave optimism of the story and the realities of life at the time. He makes a large donation to the charity he rejected the previous day, anonymously sends a large turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner and spends the afternoon at Fred's Christmas party. "Marley was dead, to begin with." . Scrooge's neglected fiance Belle is shown ending their relationship, as she realises that he will never love her as much as he loves money. When it was initially published in December 1843, Dickens had been certain the book would sell well and had hoped those sales would resolve some of his money woes. Also, it's short. (Dickens produced aslightly pared-down version of it for his own public renditions, allowing him to read the whole tale in a single performance.). And, yes, that might mean a prize Turkey at Christmas. This is ideal if you are working on a time set script, or writing the text for a big presentation. In the third field, enter the book's length - 300 pages. Interestingly, Dickens was a well-known perambulator (he regularly walked marathons around the streets of London) who plucked real names for his stories.