A christmas carol (Immortal Illustrated Classics)

The Immortal Illustrated Classics series offers adaptations of famous classics, featured in large print with lively illustrations. The series is targeted at children, but the lucid writing style is suitable for adult readers as well.

A Christmas Carol opens with the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, a stingy businessman as the meanest miser in Victorian London, who thinks only of making money. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk. For him, Christmas is; in his own words, a humbug. This old bitter miser is. haunted and visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley. Then he was given a chance for redemption when he IS haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.