<br />Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian time. Some of the world&acute;s best-known fictional characters were created by him, and his short stories and novels are still very popular.<br /><br />&ldquo;A Christmas Carol&rdquo; tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a stingy, greedy and hard-hearted man, and his transformation after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come. It&acute;s an all-time classic.<br />&nbsp;