Possible Clues:

• Novel by Stephen King
• What loves company, in a saying
• Mean to ignore learner's unhappiness
• Unhappiness of Scrooge followed by joy at last
• One half of sermon getting into goodness and suffering
• Yes, I'm unhappy to take in a bit of recreation
• Like Scrooge losing pound: it's anguish
• Suffering long way on south-eastern railway
• Great discomfort
• Blue state