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Wednesday Night Book Club In-Person

Book: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Click here to search the catalog for this book.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the main circulation desk.

Monthly book club meetings are held at 6:30 pm on the last Wednesday of the month unless otherwise noted. Meet us in the Herreshoff Room or on Zoom (register for the link). New members are always welcome!

Led by Kim Petta and funded through the generosity of the Friends of the Rogers Free Library.

Synopsis:

In October 1843, Charles Dickens, heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher, began work on a book to help supplement his family’s meager income. That volume, A Christmas Carol, has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favorite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill. With its characters exhibiting many qualities as well as failures often ascribed to Dickens himself, the imaginative and entertaining tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge’s eerie encounters with a series of spectral visitors. Journeying with them through Christmases past, present, and future, he is ultimately transformed from an arrogant, obstinate, and insensitive miser to a generous, warmhearted, and caring human being.