Fiction · 1843
A Christmas Carol in Prose
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
On Christmas Eve, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and then by three spirits — of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come — who show him what he was, what he is and what he will become. By morning he is a changed man.
Charles Dickens wrote the story in six weeks and published it on 19 December 1843. It sold out by Christmas Eve, and it has been read aloud, staged and adapted every year since. Its five “staves” made the Victorian Christmas — and the phrase “Bah! Humbug!” — part of the language.
Known everywhere simply as A Christmas Carol, it is given here complete, with Dickens’s preface and all five staves. John Leech’s illustrations for the first edition are not reproduced.
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1812–1870 · Victorian
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