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

Charles Dickens

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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.…

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  • AuthorCharles Dickens
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #46
  • Length28,020 words
  • Chapters7
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-12

Contents

7 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01A CHRISTMAS CAROL
  2. 02PREFACE
  3. 03STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST
  4. 04STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
  5. 05STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
  6. 06STAVE IV: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
  7. 07STAVE V: THE END OF IT

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