I, Ebenezer by John Lemza

About the book

He's a powerful, wealthy, worldly hedonist and now it's his turn to tell the story.

Ebenezer Scrooge commits it all to paper, letting memory guide his pen across the pages of his journal. It's all there for our review, he doesn't deny it -- his pursuit of money, status and women. But there's more, much more.

Scrooge gives us a "bit of a look" into a bawdy Victorian world of treachery and manipulation -- struggling authors, plotting publicists, conniving bishops and sultry women. All of them corrupt, and all of them bent on furthering their own ends by destroying Ebenezer Scrooge -- one way or another.

It isn't until he's been drugged and feigns insanity that his antagonists fall off, satisfied of their triumph over the capitalist. Here, Scrooge sees the advantage and while caching his enormous wealth in Swiss accounts plays the lunatic man for Dickens' novel.

Then he's off! Glad to be traveling among the colonies of the British Empire, living like a rajah among the royal subjects and reviving his self-serving spirit. His triumph is living well, despite attempts to destroy him. Thus Scrooge reveals his fate and the uncomfortable truth about A Christmas Carol.

About the author

John Lemza started writing during the seven years he lived abroad in Europe and Asia. This is where he learned about food, romance, history and satire, and how not to confuse any for the other. He new resides with his family on a large lake in a wooded area of Virginia bordering on the vast hinterlands of suburbia.