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The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow’s pudding in his garret ...

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (PDF, ebook)Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter!...

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella written in the early 19th century. This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.

What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in them through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella written in the mid-19th century. This classic tale explores themes of redemption, compassion, and the spirit of Christmas through the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, the first of which was the famous "Christmas Carol," the one perfect chrysolite. The success of the book was immediate. Thackeray wrote of it: "Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this?

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their ...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Ebenezer Scrooge is a cross, miserable, mean old man. When his nephew visits him on Christmas Eve to wish him a merry Christmas, Scrooge is not at all pleased. ‘Bah! Humbug!’ he says. ‘Christmas is humbug! Everyone who goes around saying “Merry Christmas” should have his tongue cut out. Yes, he should!’

Once upon a time—o f all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—o ld Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless holiday classic that tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation.

What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?

Once upon a time—o f all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—o ld Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.

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Transcriber's Note: this is a facsimile version of the original manuscript, hand-written by Charles Dickens. Every effort has been made to preserve the appearance of the First Edition—page breaks and labels have been kept, to match the original script, and spelling, grammar and typographical errors have been left unchanged.

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, the first of which was the famous "Christmas Carol," the one perfect chrysolite. The success of the book was immediate. Thackeray wrote of it: "Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this?

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella written in the early 19th century. The story primarily focuses on Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and cold-hearted man who is transformed after being visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits who represent Christmas Past, Present, and Future.