Walking is the primary method of the time . Scrooge is carried magically by the ghosts. He has a hackney carriage (the fore running to today's taxi) used to take the prize turkey to the Cratchits home. A coach-and-six is mentioned in stave one to give an estimated size of the staircase Scrooge climbs to his room and a hearse to take his lonely body to the cemetery.
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carolIt's called a Christmas Carol.
There are only five staves in A Chrstmas Carol. each stave (stave being used for music and song) setting out Scrooges life to that fateful Christmas Eve
The last five words of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" are: "God bless us, every one!"
There are only five staves in A Chrstmas Carol. each stave (stave being used for music and song) setting out Scrooges life to that fateful Christmas Eve
The very last 5 words are "God Bless Us, Every One"
Dickens called his story A Christmas Carol because he expected the story to be repeated and shared and and used to bring people together in a similar manner to the singing of Christmas carols which even now spread joy and bring friends and families together each year throughout London. Dickens carol was to be a song of praise for the Christmas season and of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens cleverly called the five chapters of the book "staves." A musical stave is a stanza with a consistent theme and mood. Each stave in the story delivers a different message and each has a definite mood. As in a carol each "stave" can stand alone but each contributes to the carol's overall theme and meaning
There were originally 6000 printed and they cost at the time five shillings (UK money)
Rocking Robin Fits the cipher, but it is NOT a Christmas Song at all. Okay there was some juvenile story- the Birds" Christmas Carol, but this had nothing to do with Rockin" Robin, which was recorded by Bobby Jay ( appropriate name) and was later revived by, as usual the Jackson Five.
Dickens called his story "A Christmas Carol" because its claimed he expected the story to be repeated and shared and it would bring people together just as the singing of Christmas carols would spreading joy and brining families together each season throughout London. His carol was a song of praise of the Christmas season and of the redemption of Mr Ebenezer Scrooge.In keeping with the title Dickens called the five chapters of the book "staves." A musical stave is a stanza with a consistent theme and mood. Each stave in the story delivers a different message and each has a definite mood. As in a carol each stave can stand alone but each stave contributes to the carol's overall theme.
Chapman and Hall published A Christmas Carol. This is what Wikipedia has to say about the book: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol ) is what Charles Dickens described as his "little Christmas Book"[1] and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech.[2] The first of the author's five "Christmas books", the story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week. Although originally written under financial duress to help Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time. It was with this book, and Dickens' subsequent Christmas stories, that Dickens began to revive many of the old Christman traditions and some, as a result, have called Dicken "the Father of Christmas."
There have been at least five variations on the Dickensian saga ( A Christmas Carol) which everybody calls Scrooge including Frank Capra:s reverse angle It"s a Wonderful Life which is in a sense Scrooge in back-gears, instead of being a snob the banker is contemplating suicide.