Marley's Ghost

by Mark Hazard Osmun

Publisher: Twelfth Night Press
Copyright: © 2000 by Mark Hazard Osmun Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: Second Edition
  • Paperback book $16.95

Printed: 354 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

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Before Scrooge, before Dickens, there was Jacob Marley. In Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge owes his salvation to one man: his former partner, the late Jacob Marley. Yet despite Marley’s crucial role we know him only as a shadow. Until now. Fugitive, prodigy, gambler, miner, corruptor and partner of Scrooge, Jacob Marley suffers a life in which he is both victim and villain, noble and vile. After his death, Marley’s ghost wanders a frozen hell seeking answers and redemption. There he plays one last role: that of a pawn in the battle between Light and Dark. Ultimately, Marley must choose between God and the Devil, between sacrifice and betrayal, as Mankind’s future hangs in the balance. Marley's Ghost, a dark tale about the winter of the soul, shines a brilliant, new light on Dickens’s immortal story. Now, for the first time, includes Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Prequel and Original in one!


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Dramatic and touching!
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23 Oct 2006
by mardaw
This is to "A Christmas Carol" what "Wicked" is to the OZ books, it tells the story from another characters' point of view. This time it goes in to the life, death, and afterlife, of Ebenezer Scrooge's partner, Jacob Marley. A very dramatic and touching book that gets grim (It's the kind of book where Dickens himself would step back and say "Now wasn't that a harsh thing to do to those characters?"(wink) but is very sweet in the end. I also like the closeness between Marley, then a boy named Jake Turner, and his autistic twin brother, Ezra. (of course they didn't call it autism then he was described as "a simpleton." but you know the symptoms) You read this and you will never look at the Scrooge and Marley scenes in "A Christmas Carol" the same way again.

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