5/13/2023 0 Comments Marley by Jon Clinch![]() ![]() Clinch’s novel tells the story of Scrooge and Marley as younger men who become unlikely business partners in London, amassing a considerable fortune in dubious schemes cooked up by Marley - including involvement in the slave trade to America. ![]() ![]() That’s a question Jon Clinch examines in his latest novel, “Marley,” a vivid prequel to “A Christmas Carol” that’s considerably darker than the famous 1843 novella. He may be Charles Dickens’ most memorable character: the grasping, miserly, bitter old man whose only companion is his bank account and who dismisses Christmas as nothing but “humbug.”īut what made Ebenezer Scrooge of “A Christmas Carol” the way he was? And what of his dead former partner, Jacob Marley, whose ghost appears before Scrooge on Christmas Eve to warn him of the danger of not changing his cold-hearted ways? What exactly went on between these two men in the past? ![]()
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