A Christmas Carol is a modern Scottish retelling of Charles ... that takes Scrooge back to his younger years. He sees the happy memories that he had forgotten and also the heartbreak he caused ...

These include a happy memory of when his first boss ... whereas the Cratchit family mourn Tiny Tim. Dickens uses A Christmas Carol to explore the possibility of change. On a personal level ...

Parsimonious Victorian money-lender Ebenezer Scrooge, a hated misanthrope stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas and share his inexhaustible wealth, can't be bothered with the destitute ...

Although it was in use from the 16th century, it was Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol –published exactly 175 years ago – that really popularised it. By the same token, ‘Bah! Humbug!’ entered ...