A Christmas classic! A Christmas Carol tells the story of the transformation of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. This novel received critical acclaim when it was first published on December 19, 1843 and remains popular to this day, having never fallen out of print as well as being adapted many times to film, stage, opera, and