href="#u6bed77f5-cd09-5657-9e60-c2f327207de2">CHAPTER I. The Gift Bestowed
CHAPTER III. The Gift Reversed
The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens
What Christmas is as We Grow Older (1851)
The Poor Relation's Story (1852)
The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings (1863)
THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS
OF
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol (1843)
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.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Artist John Leech
Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits
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 chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind!
