A Different Dickens Christmas Story
Gene GlotzerI'm going to start my annual re-reading of A Christmas Carol tonight. One stave a night for five nights will let me finish it on Christmas Eve. My edition of…
The Man Who Invented Christmas Didn’t Write Like That
I went to see The Man Who Invented Christmas. I liked it. It is a highly fictionalized account of how Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, which is one of…
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Five, The End of It
Well, we've come to the end. This stave is really more of a coda than anything else. It is here to show us the results and nothing more. Scrooge awakens…
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Four, The Last of the Spirits
Of all the staves, this is probably the easiest one to get right on film. The spirit is nothing more than a black, hooded robe with a "spectral" hand outstretched. …
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Three, The Second of the Three Spirits
This marks the center of the story. It is probably the most famous part of the story as well. We have Scrooge travelling with the Ghost of Christmas Present. It…
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave Two, The First of the Three Spirits
Well, my schedule was thrown off a bit, but I'm back with the second installment. The first of the three spirits is more commonly known as the Ghost of Christmas…
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Stave One Marley’s Ghost
I have a Christmas tradition that I would like to share. Every year, for the past twenty or so years, I have read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I…