A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens on Tuesday December 31, @04:28PM
You know what? I'd never actually read this one before. Like everybody who's ever been obliged to watch the telly on Christmas eve or Christmas day, I've seen the various televised plays, the movies and the Disney cartoon. But reading, that's another matter. Funny really, how Disney persists in stealing really good stories, thereby pushing the original over the brink into oblivion. If someone did to Disney, what Disney did to Dickens, he'd be sued to an inch of his life.
You know what? I'd never actually read this one before. Like everybody who's ever been obliged to watch the telly on Christmas eve or Christmas day, I've seen the various televised plays, the movies and the Disney cartoon. But reading, that's another matter. Funny really, how Disney persists in stealing really good stories, thereby pushing the original over the brink into oblivion. If someone did to Disney, what Disney did to Dickens, he'd be sued to an inch of his life.
- Author: Charles Dickens
- In: Christmas Books
- Publisher: Collins Clear-Type Press
- Published: Ca. 1900
- Place: London & Glasgow
- Pages: 486
I'm not sure when my copy of Christmas Books was published; it doesn't contain an introduction, neither by Dickens himself, nor by a later editor. I guess about 1900, though, give or take twenty or thirty years either way. I'm reader who has a lot of books, not a bibliophile, I'm afraid.