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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dc.contributor.author	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
dc.coverage.placeName	London
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dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-21T11:43:23Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-21T11:43:23Z
dc.date.created	1893
dc.identifier	ota:3256
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3256
dc.description.abstract	From half title verso: 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 Originally published London : Chapman and Hall, 1843
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dc.language	English
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dc.publisher	University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh	Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.subject.lcsh	Ghost stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.title	A Christmas carol in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas
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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 . . .