A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas or A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in London by Chapman Hall on 19 December 1843 The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Gho...