If anyone ever got a raw deal in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, it’s Ebenezer Scrooge’s long-deceased partner, Jacob Marley.

Marley's death may have been pivotal to the story of atonement and redemption.  But while Marley remained doomed to wander in chains for all eternity, even after generously extending Scrooge a timely warning, his duplicitous colleague successfully escaped damnation. Why was Scrooge the one seemingly given a second chance at saving his soul when his former business partner, who provided the means by which he gets it, apparently was not?

Join Dickens scholar Alan Giangregorio as he shares a letter that he composed to Marley about this seeming injustice along with Marley's response!

Alan Giangregorio is president of the Greater Boston chapter of the Dickens Fellowship and has been a member since 1996.  A graduate of Boston College, he has embraced and studied the works of Charles Dickens since childhood and has presented this holiday program annually at Boston's (Omni) Parker House where Dickens lived for a time during the 1860s.

Light refreshments will be served.