The Ghost of Christmas Present was a character in what was one of the best-known works of the English novelist, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... A Christmas Carol frontpiece, first edition 1843. ...

The Ghost of Christmas Present was one of three spirits that haunted the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, in order to promt him to repent. It transported him around the city, showing him scenes of festivity and also deprivation that were happening as they watched. Among those they visited were Scrooge's nephew, and the family of his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Ebenezer Scrooge encounters Ignorance and Want in A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. ... Bob Cratchit is a fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. ...

Before leaving him, the spirit showed Scrooge the anthropomorphic spectres of Ignorance and Want, appearing as two starving children.

The Ghost of Christmas Present appeared to Scrooge as a large man with a red beard and fur-lined green robe. He carried a large torch, made to resemble a Cornucopia, and appeared accompanied by a great feast. He was given to outbursts of laughter. The cornucopia (Latin Cornu Copiae), also known as the Horn of Plenty, is a symbol of food dating back to the 5th century BC. In Greek mythology, Amalthea raised Zeus on the milk of a goat. ...