A Christmas Carol

Classic Fiction · No. 1 — Three spirits, one night, and a man given a second chance.

• Classic Fiction
• 31 min
• Ages 15–99
• 6 chapters

About this audiobook

Ebenezer Scrooge, the coldest miser in London, is visited on Christmas Eve by the chained ghost of his old partner Jacob Marley and then by three spirits: Christmas Past, who shows him the boy he was and the love he traded for gold; Christmas Present, who shows him the Cratchits' small feast rich in everything money can't buy; and Christmas Yet to Come, who shows him a dead man nobody mourns — himself. Scrooge wakes on Christmas morning with his whole life to mend, and mends it.

Why it's worth a listen

A cold-hearted miser is given one night, three ghosts, and a last chance to become the man he might have been. It is eerie without being frightening and funny before it turns tender, building to one of the most joyful mornings in all of literature — the sound of a locked heart springing open. And it turns on the question this telling leaves you with: can a person truly change, and what does it take to begin?

A question to keep

Can a person truly change — and what does it take to begin?

Based on the book by Retold from Charles Dickens, published by Emma's Library original retelling

Chapters

1. The Coldest Man in London
2. The Chain of Life
3. Shadows of What Has Been
4. The Feast of the Present
5. The Shadow of the Future
6. A Question to Keep