Jacob Marley: The Ghost Who Tried to Save Scrooge | Short Audiobook
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You know the classic tale of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", now learn the story of his partner, Jacob Marley. In this dramatized short you are taken into the mind and world of Jacob, before his visit to Ebenezer Scrooge.
This Christmas audio story is an original to Griff's Library. Thanks to Mr. Charles Dickens for his genius and for leaving enough room in his story for this tale!
We hope you enjoy this tale of a wandering ghostly spirit on Christmas Eve!
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I love this extension of A Christmas Carol. I love the continuous opportunity for redemption
The prequel I didn't know was missing in my life, but clearly was. Nicely done!
Great background to Marley's story and how he wishes he would have done something differently.
By this story, Marley saved (in differing ways) three people that night. Scrooge, the girl in the street, and Tiny Tim.
I often watch the George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol".
Great story and narration! Thanks!
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
I just played Jacob Marley in a local production, and this is truly something wonderful. I portrayed him with a wide ranged of emotions, including immense sadness. It’s such a great part, and I hope to play him again someday.
I can imagine getting into that character was a special experience!
@@GriffsLibrary Have you done theater ? Just curious. This is something we needed to hear. Kudos !
Loved it! Merry Christmas 🎄
Oh wow! I have loved A Christmas Carol for all my many years (I'm almost 60) and you have made a character that I once as scared of as a child into someone thing else all together. Your right in how you ended it. Because now I will see Jacob Marley in a new light with your last word. Because well he is that. He wanted to help even though he knew nothing could be done about his chain but still wanted it for his friend and what sparked that in your story.
Thank you very much for giving me a new light on this character and now I see him a different light.
I enjoy hearing Jacob's side of the story. WE NEED THIS.
Excellent story!
Thank you for putting so much thought into this perspective. Very Well done!!!
Thank you so much!
I'm so glad yt suggested this to me, I really enjoyed it, I'd happily listen to/read a whole book from his point of view. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Thank you!
I have read/seen 3 previous attempts at a "prequel" with Marley. This was the shortest and the best. It was true to the story and had the right "flavor". Well done, and thank you.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!
@@GriffsLibrary I believe that there is / was a story about an ADULT Tiny Tim, he became like Scrooge.
Thank you so much for this beautiful tale.
Thanks for listening!
For a moment I thought he was witnessing the little match girl
That was good! Id never really given much thought to Marleys perspective, I always assumed he was nothing more than a wake up call to Scrooge. This reminds me of CS Lewis' The Great Divorce, where spirits can venture from Hell/Purgatory to Heaven and become solid. Perhaps Marley was doing his best to scare Scrooge into repenting but not quite telling him the whole truth lest he become apathetic to his position ("oh ill just repent later then")
Very enjoyable! Ill subscribe. Merry Christmas!
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Thank you Griff's Library for this wonderful little gem! We just watched the Muppet Christmas Carol (which stays surprisingly close to Dickens original text) and wondered about Jacob Marley. Thank you for opening up the story for a fresh perspective!
Muppet Christmas is a classic!!! And thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
*THIS. IS. GREAT* ! You clearly have a theatrical background or a background in other media. I'm AMAZED. & SUBSCRIBED. I *DO RECOGNIZE A GOOD THING* WHEN I SEE IT.
Thank you for the kind words! And for subscribing!
Yes. This is very good and seems well within the spirit of the original.
Perhaps my only misgiving would be that when Marley's ghost told Scrooge that Scrooge should expect to see him no more, I interpreted it as meaning that Marley was now going to go to hell for real and that there'd be no coming back and visiting people. But this story suggests that Marley might escape actual damnation and be put to some constructive afterlife tasks. I don't necessarily disapprove. I'm not sure which interpretation I prefer. I had never seen any reason to hope for Marley's future and it hadn't occurred to me that there could be reason to hope. This is going to take some getting-used-to.
Being irreligious, I never found the welcome the Little Match Girl received into the kingdom of heaven to be very reassuring at all and I have always considered that story to be one of nothing but grief. But the reassurance that Marley received from the Ghost of Christmas Present that this nearly-twin girl would be just fine soon does make me feel a bit better about her fate. I guess I'm not entirely consistent, huh?
Thank you so much
That was a heartwarming and thought-provoking prologue to a classic we all love. I think Charles Dickens would be pleased and proud to have you add on to his beloved story ❤️
Thank you!
Excellent
I hope this helped Jacob lose some of his chains ..or perhaps lose all of them …one q am I the only one who thought the little girl was “ The Little match girl”
I believe that Scrooge was
due to die soon. But Jacob Marley whom Scrooge described as a "Good Friend" was able to get him a reprieve.
If the Three Ghosts were successful in turning Scrooge around, then he would live. But if they weren't successful, then Scrooge would die and spend his afterlife dragging around the cash boxes until Judgement Day. And Jacob Marley said that Scrooge's chains and cash boxes was far longer and heavier than Marley's. 😐
Did Match books and metal barrels exist in 1843.
Good catch! Interestingly, while steel working has been practiced for thousands of years, and evidence of barrels used hundreds of years B.C., the steel barrel wasn't actually invented and used until the start of the 1900's. Matches did exist in this time period, but matchbooks weren't around until a little later.
"Matchboxes" did, but "matchbooks" came later.
It caught me a little off guard with the anachronistic book of matches (not invented until 1892).
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Occultism 😂