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author Marvin Kaye publisher Wildside Press published 1969 isbn 1592241336 -
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The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge: The Sequel to A Christmas Carol
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I was impressed and moved on many levels--not only by Marvin Kaye's mastery of Dickensian style, but also by a kind of optimism, or idealism, far more consistent with Victorian Dickens/Kaye than with purely contemporary Kaye. I can imagine that Marvin really did write it as Dickens might have wanted it to go.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
This is a magical, indeed a miraculous, story. Here is the vision of the Afterlife which Dickens did not address, but was the unanswered question at the end of his original tale. It is rare indeed when an author writes a sequel to some other author's work and does not diminish both. It's brilliant.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
It's a brave soul who writes a sequel to a universally-loved and -known book like A Christmas Carol; it's a rarer man still who does a job as fine as Marvin Kaye of evoking Charles Dickens without imitating him, of extending a story that had until now seemed resolved and delivering a tale which will delight, terrify and affect all readers.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments