This is the third chapter, or “stave” as Charles Dicken called it, of “A Christmas Carol” — in which we meet the affable but short-lived Ghost of Christmas Present.
In the company of this Ghost, Ebenezer Scrooge travels the breadth of the British Isles and beyond in the space of a single night…only to discover a horror that the Ghost has hidden in his robe.
Pay particular attention to Dickens’ use of language in describing the Christmas street scenes of Old London. Reading the great writer’s depictions of food are enough to make you “bilious” regardless of whether or not you’ve recently eaten.
