Made-for-television version of the Charles Dickens classic. Ebenezer Scrooge is a hard-nosed, single-minded businessman in Victorian London. He has no friends, has disowned his only living ...

What did Charles Dickens ever do to Steven Knight? Knight, the force behind Yorkshire crime drama “Peaky Blinders” and the nonsensical Tom Hardy Victorian stew called “Taboo,” has gotten his hands on ...

This time of year, you cannot be a functioning member of society and not be familiar with some adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and its infamous protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. A ...

Stick a stake of holly through my heart, I’m done. Cause of death: one Ebenezer Scrooge. Look, I don’t want to be telling you this. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be attracted to the ...

If I were to paraphrase Phil Gramm’s analysis of Charles Dickens’s much-loved A Christmas Carol, you wouldn’t believe me. So I’ll have to quote Gramm at length. What follows is from The Myth of ...

When Charles Dickens wrote the famous novella A Christmas Carol in 1843 little did he know that he would be describing in the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, the quintessential “controlling ...

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Johnny Depp is reportedly playing Ebenezer Scrooge in the Christmas Carol remake, Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol for Paramount Pictures. Based on the famous novel by Charles Dickens, the iconic role had ...

I often ask my students: Who is literature’s greatest hero? If you’ll pardon the pun, this is far from a novel question. A simple Google search will return hundreds of lists on the subject. Most lists ...

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