Results: A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is one of the most popular and beloved holiday tales of all time. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. But the history surrounding it isn't nearly as well known. Are you familiar with A Christmas Carol?
Yes
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No
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How many of these interesting facts about A Christmas Carol did you know?
Dickens wrote it in 6 weeks. Dickens began writing A Christmas Carol in October 1843 and finished it in 6 weeks— just in time for the holidays. The quick turnaround took its toll on the author, though, and he reportedly "broke out like a madman" upon finishing the story.
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The story is based on a character from another Dickens classic, The Pickwick Papers. In "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," a gravedigger named Gabriel Grubb is determined to have a miserable Christmas. But some goblins kidnap him and convince him otherwise.
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Only one review of A Christmas Carol was printed around its publication. The Knickerbocker reviewed the story in 1844, writing, "We have in conclusion but three words to say to every reader of The Knickerbocker who may peruse our notice of this production: Read the Work."
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A library pirated the story, and Dickens sued. Parley's Illuminated Library illegally reprinted the book two months after its release. Dickens won the case,
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Weeks after its publication, the book was developed into a play. Adapted by Edward Stirling, the theatrical version played for 40 nights in London before traveling to New York City.
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Dickens gave several public readings of A Christmas Carol. According to reports, Dickens drank rum mixed with cream, a half bottle of champagne, and a glass of sherry leading up to his performances.
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During his last public reading of A Christmas Carol, Dickens predicted his own death. In March 1870, Dickens said to the audience, "From these garish lights, I vanish now for evermore, with a heartfelt, grateful, respectful, and affectionate farewell." He died three months later.
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The book has been adapted for the screen more than 20 times, including a 1901 version that's only six minutes long, and has had countless adaptions for TV. How many of these (only a few of the many) adaptions are you familiar with?
A Christmas Carol (1951) -- Alastair Sim
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408 votes
Scrooged -- Bill Murray
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586 votes
A Christmas Carol (1971) -- animated with voice of Alistair Sim
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A Christmas Carol (1984) -- George C. Scott
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391 votes
A Christmas Carol (1938) -- Reginald Owen
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122 votes
A Christmas Carol (1997) -- animated with voice of Tim Curry
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A Christmas Carol (1935) -- Seymour Hicks
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65 votes
A Christmas Carol (1999) -- Patrick Stewart
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
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222 votes
Rich Little's Christmas Carol
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Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost -- 1901 and first known film adaption
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The Stingiest Man in Town
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Special
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307 votes
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
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248 votes
A Christmas Carol: The Musical
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Mickey's Christmas Carol
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337 votes
Ms. Scrooge
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Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
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A Flintstone's Christmas Carol
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Scrooge (1970)
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None
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The book is full of life lesson quotes, many still resonate today. Which of the quotes mentioned are your favorites?
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
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There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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Bah, Humbug! (had to be here didn't it!)
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None
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