(half title note)

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
Stave III
The second of the three spirits
Stave IV
The last of the spirits
Stave V
The end of it

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