A Christmas Carol: Page Index Sacred Texts Archive. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens In Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol. Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! 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? Read A Christmas Carol by author Charles Dickens, FREE, online.
(Table of Contents.) This book and many more are available. A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge 's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred.
He turns away two men seeking a donation to provide food and heating for the poor and only grudgingly allows his overworked, underpaid clerk, Bob. An annotated and condensed version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. "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. Free Ebook Charles Dickens. A Christmas carol by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Coburn, Frederick Simpson Publication date 1900 Topics Christmas stories, Misers Publisher New York: Putnam Collection newyorkpubliclibrary; americana Contributor New York Public Library Language English Item Size 1.2G.
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol Table of Contents A Christmas Carol (Fiction, 1843, 86 pages).