Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by John Leech.

Reprint;"The Original Edition of A Christmas Carol has been out of print for many years, and this Edition is a reprint from the stereotype plates of that edition".
At the time A Christmas Carol was written in 1843, there was a counter-Christian culture of blame and meanness operating against the poor. But, as Dickens showed in the figure of Scrooge, poverty of spirit is itself the evil. Scrooge is the embodiment of the mean and miserly anti-Christian spirit Dickens perceived to be at work in the workhouse system, and in Victorian society more generally. Scrooge is a moral pauper. The story makes manifest Dickens's view that the moral bankruptcy of tightfistedness is infinitely more blameworthy than the poverty of the working poor. Scrooge's spiritual awakening is the moral heart of the book, revealing that kindness and generosity bring happiness all round.
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