UC知道根据下列要点写一篇关于《圣诞颂歌》100词左右的英语书评
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《圣诞颂歌》（A Christmas Carol）是英国小说家查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）写的一部著名小说》。1.斯克鲁奇（Scrooge）是个爱财如命的吝啬鬼，从来不关心身边的人。然而平安夜出现的3个精灵把他带到了过去、现在和未来，让他领悟到圣诞节的意义，并开始了新的生活。2.小说以幽默的语言和深刻的含义博得读者的喜爱。3.该书于1843年出版后，多次再版。此后，英国人开始过圣诞节。这本书极大地影响了西方人对圣诞节的认识和 过节的方式。
Major themes
The story deals extensively with two of Dickens' recurrent themes, social injustice and poverty, the relationship between the two, and their causes and effects. It was written to be abrupt and forceful with its message, with a working title of "The Sledgehammer." The first edition of A Christmas Carol was illustrated by John Leech, a politically radical artist who in the cartoon "Substance and Shadow" printed earlier in 1843 had explicitly criticised artists who failed to address social issues. Dickens wrote in the wake of British government changes to the welfare system known as the Poor Laws, changes which required among other things, welfare applicants to "work" on treadmills, as Scrooge points out. Dickens asks, in effect, for people to recognise the plight of those whom the Industrial Revolution has displaced and driven into poverty, and the obligation of society to provide for them humanely. Failure to do so, the writer