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Title: A Christmas Carol
A Ghost Story of Christmas
Author: Charles Dickens
Release Date: 1992 [eBook #46]
[Most recently updated: March 4, 2018]
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
Produced by: Jose Menendez and David Widger
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
IN PROSE
BEING
A Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
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
STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST
MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There i…