NEW YORK — To hear Philip Palmer, the literary curator at the Morgan Library & Museum tell it, the story behind the writing of "A Christmas Carol" sounds, well, like something out of Charles Dickens.

Everyone knows the classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, whether from watching one of the many adaptations on Christmas Eve or from reading the original work around ...

LONDON — Marley was dead, to begin with, and 180 years later "A Christmas Carol" has transformed the holiday we celebrate this week. Originally published in 1843, Charles Dickens' novel of a bitter, ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. More than 30 years ago, a young literary manager at the Guthrie Theater was ...

This month, the Lionel Wendt Theatre will come alive with the spirit of Christmas as Cargills partners with CentreStage Productions to present ‘A Christmas Carol – The Musical’, a grand new adaptation ...

Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. In many homes across the country, it’s not ...

Johnny Depp has booked his next major movie role, in 'Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol.' The Paramount Pictures movie, to be ...

Paramount is in negotiations on a new take on Charles Dicken's "Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol," starring Johnny Depp, TheWrap ...

Actor Johnny Depp is to play the lead role of Ebenezer Scrooge in new big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' festive ...

A Christmas Carol is a 1999 Christmas fantasy television film based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol that ...