The real hero of A Christmas Carol, however, is not Scrooge but his long-deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, whose presence in the story is brief but crucial. (He is, after all, mentioned in ...

It is Christmas Eve and seven years since Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley died. It is cold, biting weather and Scrooge is in his 'counting-house' with his eye on his clerk ...

However on Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his miserly ways. He is shown the true meaning and spirit of Christmas by three ...