But Jacob Marley is not a careless man.” By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, he has, without imitating Dickens, ... MARLEY By Jon Clinch 288 pp. Atria Books. $27.

In “Marley,” he begins when Jacob and Ebenezer are students at Professor Drabb’s Academy for Boys, a boarding school even grimmer than Mr. Gradgrind’s classroom in “Hard Times ...

In honor of the holiday season, I decided to pick up Jon Clinch’s gorgeous new pastiche of Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.” This is the story of a younger Jacob ...

Jacob Marley and Ebenezer Scrooge would probably root for the Grinch. “They’re both mean, spiteful and lonely,” said Charles Fraser who plays Marley in “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol ...