A Christmas Carol

ISBN-13: 9781511595322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 98 str.

Charles Dickens

Opis

The tale begins on a "cold, bleak, biting"Christmas Eveexactly seven years after the death ofScrooge'sbusiness partnerJacob Marley. Scrooge, an oldmiser, is established within the first stave as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner " He hates Christmas, calling it "humbug"; he refuses his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner invitation, and rudely turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the poor. His only "Christmas gift" is allowing his overworked, underpaidclerkBob CratchitChristmas Day off with pay- which he does only to keep with social custom, Scrooge considering it "a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December ""