The Penguin English Library Edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens”Every idiot who goes around with `Merry Christmas` on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding”Charles Dickens`s tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens`s other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.