What is it about Charles Dickens’s A クリスマス 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, または fifth time, または twentieth time? または is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old フレンズ with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; フレンズ like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of クリスマス past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...
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