A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

"A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1843. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who despises Christmas. Through supernatural visits from four ghosts—Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—Scrooge undergoes a profound transformation. This beloved tale has become one of Dickens's most famous works, adapted countless times across virtually every medium and performance genre since its publication. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Illustrator Leech, John, 1817-1864
Title A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Note Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook:
#46 (Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech)
#19337 (Published in 1905; Illustrations in Black and White by G. A. Williams)
#24022 (Published in 1915; Illustrations in Black and White and Color by By Arthur Rackham)
#30368 (First edition with original hand written pages; Black and White illustrations)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
Credits Jose Menendez and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Christmas stories
Subject London (England) -- Fiction
Subject Poor families -- Fiction
Subject Ghost stories
Subject Misers -- Fiction
Subject Sick children -- Fiction
Subject Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 46
Release Date
Last Update Nov 13, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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