Scrooge, Ebenezer
Scrooge, Ebenezer a miserly curmudgeon in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol (1843); his initially grudging and scornful attitude is changed in the course of the book after the warning he receives from the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley.
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