Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth

''Marley was dead to begin with.'' So begins one of the best-loved and famous Christmas stories that has been filmed, inspired musicals, and plays, and still entertains with a timeless story of transformation from meanness to generosity and kindness. A sensational success when it was published, ''A Christmas Caro''l was written by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote tirelessly to expose the terrible wr...