A Christmas Carol
Classical Stories · No. 87 — Three ghosts, one night, a whole life re-decided by morning.
- Classical Stories
- 1h 18m
- Ages 15–99
- 6 chapters
About this audiobook
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter, tight-fisted old man who despises Christmas, underpays his clerk Bob Cratchit, and turns away everyone's warmth. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his old partner Jacob Marley, wound in the chains he forged in life, who warns Scrooge that he faces the same fate unless he changes, and that three spirits will come. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows him the boy he was and the love he let slip; the Ghost of Christmas Present shows him the joy of others he scorns and the fragile, gentle Tiny Tim; the silent Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him a lonely, unmourned death — his own. Waking on Christmas morning to find he still has time, Scrooge is transformed: he becomes generous, joyful, a second father to Tiny Tim, and proof that it is never too late to change.
Why it's worth a listen
A cold, miserly old man who hates Christmas and everyone in it is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his dead partner and then by three spirits — of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come — who walk him through his own life, warmth he refused, and the lonely end he is heading toward. Dickens' beloved ghost story about second chances, and the possibility that anyone, at any age, can choose to change.
A question to keep
Can a person truly change — and is it ever too late to become kind?
Chapters
- The Man of Cold and Iron
- The Chain of Jacob Marley
- The Light of Yesterday
- The Feast of the Present
- The Shadow of What May Be
- The Joy of Morning