A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as
A Christmas Carol, is a
novella by
Charles Dickens, first published in
London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim.
A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named
Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner
Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.