Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Jennifer George
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, Jennifer George
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
The Complete Story Adapted For Modern Readers by Jennifer George

Author: Jennifer George

Narrator: Angus Freathy

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/16/2020


Synopsis

This complete version of A Christmas Carol is carefully crafted for the story's most avid readers using modern grammar and vocabulary. A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens’ best works, and in many ways, it has defined how Christmas is viewed and acted upon around the world. Christmas is a time for worship, family, friends, and love, and A Christmas Carol poignantly reminds and instructs us to express those things through charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence in honor of the sacred day.However, as the English language evolves, this wonderfully instructive story is in danger of only being read as a school requirement by grudging students. That would be a sad loss for all readers. As an avid reader, teacher, and parent who simply loves this story, Jennifer George adapted this classic book for modern readers using 21st century English. The goal is to return this magical novella back into the entertaining and easily readable story it was when it was written nearly 200 years ago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerry on March 21, 2022

'Scrooge was hard and sharp as flint! The cold within him froze his old features, and made his eyes red, and his thin lips blue. He was a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, and miserly man!' With this opening description, and I do love those present participles, we are immediately a......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 22, 2022

So, generally the classic tale - though it reads far more like the Muppet’s version than Dickens’s original. A little scary pictorially for Noah at 3.5. Fortunately, he was shattered and just listened.......more

Goodreads review by Locke on June 11, 2019

I'm told this is a Christmas classic. What is Christmas? Where am I?......more