| LC control no. | no2019028940 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Marley, Jacob (Fictitious character) (Spirit) |
| Variant(s) | Marley's Ghost (Fictitious character) Ghost of Jacob Marley (Fictitious character) Jacob Marley's Ghost (Fictitious character) Spirit of Jacob Marley (Fictitious character) |
| See also | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
| Biography/History note | Jacob Marley is a fictitious character who appears in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. He is Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed and selfishness when he was alive. |
| Found in | Scrooge (Motion picture : 1901). Scrooge, or, Marley's ghost, 1901. Mula, Tom. Jacob Marley's Christmas carol, 2003. OCLC, February 26, 2019 (#31273005: McKie, Anne. A Christmas carol, ©1990; summary note: In this classic Christmas story Ebenezer Scrooge, a very mean and selfish man, is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, and is warned to change his ways; #2015506967: Lovett, Charles C. The further adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge, 2015; summary note: A sequel to "A Christmas Carol" set twenty years after Scrooge's famous reformation finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to victimized associates in order to find peace) Wikipedia, February 26, 2019 (Jacob Marley is a fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. He is Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed and selfishness when he was alive; In A Christmas Carol, Marley is the first character mentioned in the first line of the story. Jacob Marley is said to have died seven years earlier on Christmas Eve (as the setting is Christmas Eve 1843, this would have made the date of his passing December 24, 1836; lists numerous appearances in various film adaptations) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2006002088 |
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