What is it about Charles Dickens’s A Рождество Carol that propels so many readers, annually, to reread the “ghost story of Christmas” and watch its many film and play productions? What is the fascination? Did people not “get it” the first time, или fifth time, или twentieth time? или is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old Друзья with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; Друзья like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of Рождество past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...
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