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Lantern Slide - A Christmas Carol, 'Scrooge Making Merry with his Clerk', 1843-1880, Number 12 in a set of twelve slides in the series 'A Christmas Carol'. 'A Christmas Carol' is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past,