Title: |
A Christmas Carol |
Author: |
Charles Dickens |
ISBN: |
0 19 597134 5 |
Genre: |
Classics, Science fiction and
fantasy |
Level: |
2 |
Module: |
Getting along with others
Cultures of the world Teenage
life Home and neighbourhood
Wonderful things Nature
and environment Social issues |
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An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets
a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home
on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door
knocker, it turns into a face ¢w the face of a friend
who has been dead for many years!
This is just the beginning of a long night in which
Ebenezer Scrooge talks to his dead friend, and meets
three other ghosts. The first two show him Christmas
in the past and the present. The third lets him see
what might happen in the future.
Find out what Scrooge saw, and whether or not it made
him change his ways.
Charles Dickens was a very popular
writer who lived in England in the time of Queen Victoria.
Many of his stories are about children, and the hard
lives of poor people in those days. |
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