A Christmas Carol - Puffin Classics Author:Charles Dickens On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the �humbug� of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitors�his former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come�show him the error of his ways, and by the time Christma... more »s Day dawns, Scrooge is a changed person.« less