A Christmas Carol (Classics Read By Celebrities Series)(Library Edition)

Product Description [Library Edition Audio CD in Vinyl case] This is an *ABRIDGED* reading of A Christmas Carol. It is read by Paul Scofield and it is part of the 'Classics Read by Celebrities' audiobook series. ''Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding,'' says Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas . . . until Christmas Eve, when a haunted voice from the past changes his life - - overnight! Review "Perhaps the outstanding Christmas myth of modern literature."-- "Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature"People just love A Christmas Carol. There are reasons that it has been made into some three dozen feature films and television movies and that it is the most frequently produced play on the American stage.-- "New York Times" About the Author Author Bio: CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Reader Bio: David Paul Scofield CH CBE (1922-2008) better known as PAUL SCOFIELD, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.