"Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
"Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail."
Who, having read those words, can't help but thrill in delicious anticipation of what to come in Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story in Prose? Full of vivid characters everyone knows, like Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and Tiny Tim, and wonderful descriptions of an early 19th century Christmas, it should be an annual read. Today is the 177th anniversary of the publication of the Carol.
However, many people take their Christmas Carol doses via film, and here's a nicely opinionated guide!
A Christmas Carol Film Adaptations - Best and Worst Movie Versions
If you're a book lover, you might enjoy this volume combining the two, which I ordered for myself this year, read (see my review from December 7), and enjoyed:
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