A Christmas carol in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

A Christmas carol in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas

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Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Date of publication: 1893

Type: Text

Language(s): English

OTA identifier: ota:3256

Collection(s): OTA Core Collection

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The Original Edition of A CHRISTMAS CAROL has been out of print for many years, and this Edition is a reprint from the stereotype plates of that Edition.
A Christmas carol.
in prose.
being
A Ghost Story of Christmas
by
Charles Dickens.
With illustrations by John Leech
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1893.
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
1
Stave II
The first of the three spirits
39
Stave III
The second of the three spirits
74
Stave IV
The last of the spirits
121
Stave V
The end of it
152
STAVE ONE MARLEY'S GHOST
Marley 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 chi . . .