{"id":12943,"date":"2023-12-19T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:01:59","slug":"virtual-advent-2023-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12943","title":{"rendered":"virtual advent 2023: day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 180 years ago, Chapman &#038; Hall published Charles Dickens&#8217; <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>. The first printing sold out by Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>My dad loves this Dickens classic, and so we were exposed early. I was (and am) not a particular fan of ghost stories, so it took many years before I came to appreciate the original text, although I do have a fondness for some of the film and tv adaptations, especially Mr. Magoo&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/245264831?h=4cef2eec7e&#038;title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We grew up listening to the old audio plays. This is the Campbell (of the soup fame) Playhouse version, with Lionel Barrymore as Ebenezer Scrooge and Orson Welles as the narrator:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gJ3jINcTR0?si=nMaliBuCdEg8K8Z3\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got some time to listen &#8212; wrapping presents maybe or baking or navigating traffic &#8212; here is Neil Gaiman reading the unabridged story from Dickens&#8217; folio:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/182176788&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nypl\" title=\"New York Public Library\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Public Library<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nypl\/neil-gaiman-reads-a-christmas-carol\" title=\"Neil Gaiman Reads &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Gaiman Reads &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And if you are a lucky soul in New York City (know if I&#8217;d discovered this earlier, I&#8217;d have been on a train now!), Gaiman is doing a costumed reading at Town Hall tonight to benefit the New York Public Library, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thetownhall.org\/event\/neil-gaiman-performs-a-christmas-carol-12-19\">tickets still seem to be available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 180 years ago, Chapman &#038; Hall published Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol. 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