Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Three, The Second of the Three Spirits

This marks the center of the story.  It is probably the most famous part of the story as well.  We have Scrooge travelling with the Ghost of Christmas Present.  It contains the scene in the Cratchit household where we meet Bob’s family and Tiny Tim says, “God bless us, every one!”  It also has the…

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Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Two, The First of the Three Spirits

Well, my schedule was thrown off a bit, but I’m back with the second installment.  The first of the three spirits is more commonly known as the Ghost of Christmas Past.  Of the three spirits, Christmas Past is the one that never looks right on screen.  Dickens says: It was a strange figure – like…

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