A Christmas Carol The Original 1843 Edition (Charles Dickens Classics)

It's a charming fairytale about a spoiled prince that strongly reminded me of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

It was about a waltz by Strauss. I was like, goodbye.

It was fucking crazy. What was the question? Also it was... What was the spelling of Ebenezer's spirit?

It was like, what is the correct spelling of the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

They gave four different spellings of Ebenezer and I believe I'm repeating myself with this story on the podcast.

It was one of those things... It's so hard though. It was one of those things where it leaves your mouth and you're like that's wrong but I'm still doing it.

It was about a waltz by Strauss. I was like, goodbye.

Also it was... What was the spelling of Ebenezer's spirit?

It was like, what is the correct spelling of the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

They gave four different spellings of Ebenezer and I believe I'm repeating myself with this story on the podcast.

It was E-B-E-N-E-Z-E-R and E-B-E-N-E-E-Z-E-R. I think it's the one-E right?

if you've ever seen a Christmas Carol, you know, Charles Dickens, when Marley's ghost first appears in several iterations of the play and the teleplay and that sort of thing, Marley has a kerchief tied around his head.

Well, that's one of the things that they used to do because if you didn't, the body would develop what's referred to as the osan. The mouth looks like an O okay, and that's because the jaw opens and then it freezes and certainly during Victorian times that was considered improper.

I also wonder Charles Dickens got the idea from maybe Lazarus who's asking, or the rich man asking Lazarus to go warn my brother so they don't come to a place like this. Well, Marley gets to do that to Scrooge and he says, your chain was this long seven Christmas Eves ago and you've labored on it since.

Will these new things last, he wondered? As is the new book that Dickens himself has just published. His gaze is drawn to a copy lying on the mantelpiece. It's a ghost story.

It's called... A Christmas Carol. It'll go on to become a festive tradition all of its own, as successive generations gather close to listen in the flickering candlelight.

The version of A Christmas Carol that I'll be reading today isn't quite the same as the one Dickens wrote in the winter of 1843. It's a version that he personally abridged and performed on stage to rave reviews.