When I was a child we had a video tape called "The Jetsons' Christmas Carol", embarrassingly enough I grew up thinking that the original of this story including the three Christmas ghosts were dreamed up in the head of the creators of the Jetsons. I was corrected a few years later, but I never actually read this book until this year. For a start, for Dickens, it's very short. I read it in a single night.
In it we are told the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter business man who is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Marley who warns him that unless he changes his ways he will end up a miserable ghost. He is to be visited by three ghosts. The Ghost of Christmas Past reminds him of his innocent, kindly beginnings; The Ghost of Christmas Present (brilliant pun) shows him what is going on by those he knows and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come warns him what will happen if he continues as he is.
The book is full of Christmas spirit and is likely to fill even the most cynical reader with a sense of eventual joy. It also reminds the reader that greed will never lead to happiness and that kindness to others is one of the best ways to ensure a happy heart.
Read it!
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