Charles Dickens
30 Dickensian Christmas Classics: Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated Edition)
A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground...
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Table of Contents
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
A Christmas Carol
Stave II The First of the Three Spirits
Stave III The Second of the Three Spirits
Stave IV The Last of the Spirits
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.
List of Illustrations
Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits
STAVE I
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 chief mourner. Scrooge