Politics / The president-elect and his un-elected mega-billionaire buddy have gone full Dickensian in their attempts to make ...

“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” is our introduction to Jacob Marley, whose ghost helps former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge find redemption in the ...

The graveyard scene in the 1984 production of A Christmas Carol was filmed in the town of Shrewsbury, England. The stone ...

Scrooge isn't materialistic or selfish; he's despondent. This despondency arises less from the death of his partner, and more from the prospect of death itself. Marley's death forces Scrooge to ...

The Brooklyn Christmas of 1899 was not so different than today, a tale of the haves and the have-nots. Editor’s note: This ...

It would go through 13 additional printings, the Endowment said.Dickens did not limit his holiday writing, though, to just Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts. There were a series of other ...

Scrooge, in contrast, is jubilant at the end of “A Christmas Carol,” but only after transformed through run-ins with Marley’s ghost, surreal tours with three spirits and a vision of Tiny Tim ...

As a ghost, Jacob Marley helps save Scrooge in the classic Dickens tale. Now, other authors are writing books that tell Marley's story.

Reginald Owen, playing Scrooge, speaks with his dead business partner Marley, played by Leo G. Carroll, during the 1938 MGM production of A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens, in the most famous of ...