My thoughts on “A Christmas Carol”
It’s a good summary, but the problem is that the version we know, published by Charles Dickens, wasn’t the original. I’ve discovered (and can prove beyond a reasonable doubt, after 15 years of independent research) that he plagiarized it from an obscure American couple named Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier. Their version was a Spiritualist novella written in the Christian redemption genre, in which all the supernatural elements were intended to be real and authentic. In short, at least to Abby, who had studied these subjects, it was no ghost story, at all. Dickens hurriedly commercialized it into a ghost story to make quick cash.
