A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
| A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas was first published in 1843 and was illustrated by John Leech. The story met with instant success, selling six thousand copies within a week. Originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.— Excerpted from A Christmas Carol on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. |
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.
Table of Contents
Stave 1 – Marley's Ghost
Stave 2 – The First of the Three Spirits
Stave 3 – The Second of the Three Spirits
Stave 4 – The Last of the Spirits
Stave 5 – The End of It
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