Bonus Episode: Gretchen Rubin Reads Charles Dickens’s Timeless Story, “A Christmas Carol.” Part I.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

As a holiday gift for listeners, I read a story: Charles Dickens’s timeless ghost story, “A Christmas Carol.” These days, while many people have a general impression of the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts , they probably haven’t actually read or heard the story. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.0	Hello, I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a bonus episode of Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
0:48.0	As part of the work on my book on the body and the five senses,
0:52.0	I wanted to do a project that played with a sense of sound.
0:56.0	And so I thought it would be fun to record an audiobook.
1:00.0	And so I decided to create this audiobook as a holiday gift to listeners.
1:05.0	I found the perfect project.
1:07.0	Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.
1:12.0	This novella, properly titled A Christmas Carol in Pros,
1:16.0	being a ghost story of Christmas, has been immensely popular since the day it first appeared in 1843.
1:24.0	A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been adapted many times
1:29.0	for film, stage, opera, cartoons, and other media.
1:34.0	The general outline of the story is very familiar.
1:37.0	You probably have a sense of what happens.
1:39.0	And you've probably heard the expression,
1:42.0	bah humbug, or heard someone call the scrooge.
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