Valentine and Orson: “Poor boy! And Valentine," said Scrooge, "and his wild brother, Orson; there they go!”
Books that mention A Christmas Carol (7)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “She babbled on long enough for Flora to get a good long spell at the “Christmas Carol,” which Miss Matty had left on the table.”
His Family by Ernest Poole: “invariably he had taken "The Christmas Carol" from its shelf ... as he read of "Tiny Tim" his deepset eyes would glisten with tears”
2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol.”
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks: “he wrote this play called The Christmas Angel, because he didn't want to keep on performing that old Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Odyssey, Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, The Lord of the Rings, Honey in the Horn, The Jump-Off Creek: none of those stories is factual.”
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver: “the hooded skeleton pointing at gravestones that scared the bejesus out of her in childhood. A library book, Charles Dickens. But that was the Yet to Come ghost”
Winter by Ali Smith: “"All Dickens says in A Christmas Carol is that bye and bye they had a song"; later "an old copy of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens"”