In fact, with so many options, it can be difficult to choose a way to consume this quintessential Christmas story. Not to mention all of the various audiobooks, many of them performed as audio dramas. There have been many adaptations of A Christmas Carol, among them stage plays, movies, and my favorite: radio dramas. When I finally sat down to do so, I discovered that it is a great deal more than just a nice story Dickens’s prose is exquisite, the story moves at a clip, it’s emotionally satisfying, and all the versions of it that I was familiar with and loved the most borrowed liberally from the text, with little need to embellish it (beyond giving said text to Gonzo) because it was already perfect. I’d seen movies and listened to radio versions, but despite living with a gorgeous edition (belonging to my husband) for over 20 years, I’d never read it. Until this fall I had, somehow, never actually read A Christmas Carol.
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