A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is a famous 1843 novel by British author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of how a rich, thrifty, heartless, old miser called Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts during Christmas Eve who warn him to change his ways. Scrooge has a change of heart over the night and thus becomes a better person, even saving the handicapped little son Tiny Tim of his employee Bob Cratchit. It has been adapted to countless film and television special adaptations over the decades and, inevitably, referenced in "The Simpsons" too.