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word count 11490
date submitted 24.01.2010
date updated 10.10.2011
genres: Fiction, Comedy
classification: moderate
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A Christmas Carol Retold : A Tales From The Back Side Presentation

Anthony Lund

The Dickens story disected and rewritten as a masterpiece of comical violence, innuendo and good old fashioned British Pantomime.

 

Welcome friends, nomads and infantrymen to the world of Dickens. You've walked the streets of London with spirits and witnessed the miraculous change of heart of
one Ebenezer Scrooge...but every story has a back side where things are seen from a different angle.

This is A Christmas Carol like none before it and none that dare to follow in its wake. Follow Scrooge on the longest journey of his life with a trio of aptly named Spirits, and discover the brutal ways of the past, present and future ghosts. Why can Scrooge no longer use his favourite catchphrase? Who are the suspicious charity workers? How does Scrooge end up with jelly down his trousers? Who ate all the pies? How many jokes about fiddling with knockers can one book get away with?

All the answers and more can be found here, in the most bizarre retelling of a classic tale for more than a decade.

A Christmas Carol Retold by Anthony Lund will make you laugh, cry, giggle like a girl and in extreme cases may cause incontinence. Mr Dickens is spinning like a hurricane as we speak.

Available to buy in paperback and hardback from Amazon and good bookshops.

 
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christmas, christmas carol, comedy, dickens, ghosts, humour, london, pantomime anthony lund, parody, scrooge, spike milligan, spirits

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SusieGulick wrote 693 days ago

Dear Anthony, I love Chrsitmas Carole & you have done a most wonderful adaption :) - fantastic! :) I'm backing this one & have 2 more to go. :) Please take a moment to back my 2 memoir books. :) Thanks. :)
Love, Susie :)

Famlavan wrote 812 days ago

This is very good, i recently started a thread in the forum - Books that dare to be different - Think i'm going to add this.

Famlavan - Museum of Old Beliefs

WendyB wrote 815 days ago

This has terrific potential. Your words are not always doing the job you've sent them for, but most of your images are hilarious. ("You would e mistaken for thinking" should be "You would be forgiven for thinking".

"Scrooge threw his nephew a look of contempt, then reeled it back in to reuse later in the conversation." This cannot be improved...not in any way.

In short - the book is damned funny.

Wendy Bertsch
(Once More...From The Beginning)

WendyB wrote 815 days ago

This has terrific potential. Your words are not always doing the job you've sent them for, but most of your images are hilarious. ("You would e mistaken for thinking" should be "You would be forgiven for thinking".

"Scrooge threw his nephew a look of contempt, then reeled it back in to reuse later in the conversation." This cannot be improved...not in any way.

In short - the book is damned funny.

Wendy Bertsch
(Once More...From The Beginning)

Manolya wrote 834 days ago

Hey, why aren't more people reading this! Its brilliant and should be on TV, will sure beat some of the drivel put on at Christmas- comedy actors would be lining up to star in it. I have to say, I actually used to work for someone just like your Scrooge character- can't say I enjoyed remembering him:)

All the very best with this one Anthony- Backed!

Kind regards,
Manolya- Love in No-Man's Land

Ibby Pargeter wrote 841 days ago

Extremely enjoyable, especially since I recently studied Dickens as part of my degree course. It reminds me of Monty Python, in partic. the dead parrot sketch.

I can see this concept working for a lot of the 'Classics'!

Backed with great enthusiasm.

Ibby (Near Miss)

Dina Santorelli wrote 845 days ago

How inventive. Backed with pleasure!

Dina
Baby Grand

Sam Fallow wrote 846 days ago

After the opening paragraph I was full of praise. After the 2nd I was going to start nit picking. And again with the 3rd. And the 4th.

Then it clicked. Brilliant!

By the time I got halfway through the first chapter I was laughing (Scrooge's gaze fell on the pavement...) and decided that this needed backing. Happy to be first. Keeping this for the entire read.

SF (huge Dickens fan).
p.s. I'm not huge, just a little overweight.

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