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Scrooge’s emails

12th December 2017 By Mark Leave a Comment

So the challenge was to retell “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens in the form of an email inbox. This is the result. As always, start at the bottom…

Scrooge's emails

Never read much Dickens, and was surprised at the humour. Echoes of Terry Pratchett (another favourite author of mine) in such lines as:

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Or…

Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.

Filed Under: If they had email Tagged With: a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

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