"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge written in 1843, is one of the most familiar literary works in the English language. Though Eleanor Farjeon wrote in an ...

For six weeks in October and November of 1843, 31-year-old Charles Dickens toiled at his latest book like a man possessed. Feverishly applying ink to paper, he "wept and laughed and wept again" - as ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Popping up once a year, works like “A Christmas Carol,” “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” help us gauge where we are in our lives. “A Christmas Carol” ...

Has any story outside the Bible been adapted and performed more times than A Christmas Carol? The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the four ghosts who set out to change his miserly ways has been reworked ...