A short, simple statement — “Marley was dead” — ranks high in any list of the most famous first lines in all literature.

Charles Dickens published perhaps his most famous story, "A Christmas Carol," on this day in history, Dec. 19, 1843. It's one ...

Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge ... workshop where puppets for The Muppet Christmas Carol were crafted, and the setting for Dickens' last ever public reading of his ...