A Christmas Carol: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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A Christmas Carol is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Dickens, Charles (1812–1870).
Catalogue synopsis
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"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1843. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner and three spirits representing Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Through these supernatural encounters, Scrooge confronts his lonely past, witnesses the joy he's missing, and glimpses a bleak future. Can a lifetime of greed and selfishness be transformed in a single night?
Book and edition facts
- Title: A Christmas Carol
- Author credits: Dickens, Charles (1812–1870)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Christmas stories
- Ghost stories
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Misers -- Fiction
- Poor families -- Fiction
- Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Sick children -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
- Children's Literature
- Christmas
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