Edward Morgan Brett

A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations

• Author(s): Fred Guida

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2000
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• Publisher: McFarland

Over 150 years after its original composition, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol continues to delight readers. The figure of Ebenezer Scrooge has become a cultural icon, and Tiny Tim's "God Bless Us Every One" is as familiar as "Merry Christmas." It is not surprising that Dickens' "ghostly little book," as he called it, has proved popular with playwrights and screenwriters. In everything from elegant literary treatments to animated musicals, the role of Scrooge has been essayed by actors from George C. Scott to Mr. Magoo. This critical account of the story's history and its various adaptations examines first the original writing of the story, including its political, economic, and historica...

Minutes

• Author(s): Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1992
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc

• Author(s): Frederick Arthur Crisp

• Categories: Registers of births, etc

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1888
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Statutes of the Realm

• Author(s): Great Britain

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1819
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland

• Author(s): John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke

• Categories: Gentry

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1850
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• Publisher: Unknown

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