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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas — Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 83 pages

A Christmas Carol is a short novel and a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens. It follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted miser visited by spirits on Christmas Eve and shown his past, present and future. It is a warm tale of change and compassion, told with Dickens's vivid storytelling, and it is well worth listening to.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Opening of the book

46

(Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in

Color by John Leech)

19337 (Published in 1905; Illustrations in Black and White by G. A.

Williams)

24022 (Published in 1915; Illustrations in Black and White and Color by By Arthur Rackham)

30368 (First edition with original hand written pages; Black and

White illustrations.)

Cover of 1843 First Edition

Title Page of 1843 First Edition

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

IN PROSE

BEING

A Ghost Story of Christmas

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH

PREFACE

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the

Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

C. D.

December, 1843.

CONTENTS

STAVE  I

MARLEY’S GHOST

STAVE  II

THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

STAVE  III

THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

STAVE  IV

THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

STAVE  V

THE END OF IT

ILLUSTRATIONS

Artist.

Marley’s Ghost

J. Leech

Ghosts of Departed Usurers

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Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball

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Scrooge Extinguishes the First

of the Three Spirits

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Scrooge’s Third Visitor

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Ignorance and Want

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The Last of the Spirits

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Scrooge and Bob Cratchit

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STAVE  ONE.

MARLEY’S GHOST.

MĵǡƯŧΏ was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt

whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old

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Contents

  1. There are several editions of this ebook in the Project Gutenberg collection. Various characteristics of each ebook are
  2. A CHRISTMAS CAROL
  3. IN PROSE
  4. A Ghost Story of Christmas
  5. CHARLES DICKENS
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ILLUSTRATIONS
  8. STAVE ONE.
  9. STAVE TWO.
  10. STAVE THREE.
  11. STAVE FOUR.
  12. STAVE FIVE.
  13. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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