Christmas

 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens novella about an elderly miser visited on Christmas Eve by three ghosts, was published in December 1843 and, almost immediately, was adapted for the stage. The pace has not slowed: 166 years later, A Christmas Carol is one of most adapted works of literature ever, with radio, theatre, and film versions - it’s even become an opera! You’d think Tiny Tim deserved a break, but the umpteenth version of Dickens...