Title: A Christmas Carol (A Ghost Story of Christmas)
Author: Charles Dickens
Illustrator: John Leech
Subjects: Classic; fiction; Children
A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors.
CONTENTS
STAVE I
STAVE II
STAVE III
STAVE IV
STAVE V
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.
