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A CHRISTMAS CAROL-Review

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"Marley was dead to begin with.There is no doubt whatever about that.The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman,the undertaker and the chief mourner.Scrooge signed it.And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to.Old Marley was dead as a doornail."      This is the first paragraph of the all time favourite Christmas story of well known British author Charles Dickens-'A Christmas Carol'.A wonderful and meaningful story,I ought to accept!Dickens has once again established his worthiness in my mind ,if he has already done the same in yours,after novels like ' David Copperfield' and 'Oliver Twist'. 'David Copperfield' is his autobiographical novel while 'Oliver Twist' elucidates the plight of  Oliver.But 'A Christmas Carol' is disparate.It is a dexterous story,when the glum old miser Ebenezer Scrooge discovers the world of love and happiness rather than that of money and h...