📱 eBook en inglés A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Bah,said Scrooge, Humbug.

But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life:

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the World!

Old Ebenezer Scrooge is too mean to spend money on coals for the fire in his counting-house, where his clerk Bob Cratchit shivers in the winter cold.

Declining an invitation to his nephew Freds Christmas party, and refusing to give money to charity, he is ready for his usual miserly Christmas in his cold, dingy apartment. But that night, the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley appears, in chains, and tells him to expect a visit from three spirits over the next three nights. Sure enough, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come lead Scrooge through his early years, the meagre Christmas about to happen in Bob Cratchits family and the jolly Christmas party at his nephews home, and finally a vision of his own death as a wealthy but avaricious and unhappy miser.

Waking from these visions, Scrooge is given a chance to redeem himself, attending Freds party and lavishing gifts on the Cratchit family and learning that kindness and generosity to others lead to his own happiness.