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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

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"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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  1. 1Chapter 159,890 chars
  2. 2Chapter 259,842 chars
  3. 3Chapter 346,586 chars
  4. 4The Last of the Spirits15,749 chars