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The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is a greedy and stingy businessman who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts – each in its turn – who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation.

The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to the scenes of his boyhood and youth which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several radically differing scenes (a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the family feast of Scrooge's near-impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse among other sites) in order to evince from the miser a sense of responsibility for his fellow man. The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed. Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what may be."

Scrooge awakens Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then spends the day with his nephew's family after anonymously sending a prize turkey to the Crachit home for Christmas dinner. Scrooge has become a different man overnight, and now treats his fellow men with kindness, generosity, and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Christmas. The story closes with the narrator confirming the validity, completeness, and permanence of Scrooge's transformation.

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This book is just fabulous!
This is one of the best stories ever written. Ebenezer Scrooge, is the biggest grouch on the world, almost murdering carolers that come to his door for the fact he just can't stand to be Merry, even at Christmas time.The 3 Ghosts (Ghost of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmases toCome) take him to it's own time space, and show him how the Christmas was,and the funeral of Scrooge, only to find that he was unliked and hated, sothat no one came to the funeral. This is a truly inspiring story, so Igreatly encourage you to get this! ... Read more

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A Christmas Carol
I am an English teacher and have always wanted a complete copy of Christmas Carol that included the illustrations. The book is a literary time capsule of Victoria's England. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : The Grolier clubPublication date: 1914Subjects: Leech, John, 1817-1864Caricatures and cartoonsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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An excerpt from the book:

We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable,
old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as
children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was
Boydell's Shakspeare, black and ghastly gallery of murky Opies, glum
Northcotes, straddling Fuselis! there were Lear, Oberon, Hamlet, with
starting muscles, rolling eyeballs, and long pointing quivering fingers;
there was little Prince Arthur (Northcote) crying, in white satin, and
bidding good Hubert not put out his eyes; there was Hubert crying; there
was little Rutland being run through the poor little body by bloody
Clifford; there was Cardinal Beaufort (Reynolds) gnashing his teeth, and
grinning and howling demoniacally on his death-bed (a picture frightful
to the present day); there was Lady Hamilton (Romney) waving a torch,
and dancing before a black background,--a melancholy museum indeed.
Smirke's delightful "Seven Ages" only fitfully relieved its general
gloom. We did not like to inspect it unless the elders were present, and
plenty of lights and company were in the room.

Cheerful relatives used to treat us to Miss Linwood's. Let the children
of the present generation thank their stars THAT tragedy is put out
of their way. Miss Linwood's was worsted-work. Your grandmother or
grandaunts took you there and said the pictures were admirable. You saw
"the Woodman" in worsted, with his axe and dog, trampling through the
snow; the snow bitter cold to look at, the woodman's pipe wonderful: a
gloomy piece, that made you shudder. There were large dingy pictures
of woollen martyrs, and scowling warriors with limbs strongly knitted;
there was especially, at the end of a black passage, a den of lions
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Chapters: Marshalsea, Robert Seymour, All the Year Round, John Elwes, Ikey Solomon, John Leech, Charles Dickens, Jr., George Cruikshank, Georgina Hogarth, Henry Fielding Dickens, Alfred D'orsay Tennyson Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, Catherine Dickens, Augustus Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, Tavistock House, Robert William Buss, Frederick Dickens, Joseph Grego, Mary Dickens, Staplehurst Rail Crash, John Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, Household Words, Gads Hill Place, Dora Annie Dickens, the Uncommercial Traveller, Cedric Charles Dickens, Ellen Ternan, Alfred Lamert Dickens, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Forster, Lant Street, Dickens Family, Bleeding Heart Yard, Edward Dickens, Charles Dickens Museum, Daily News, Charles Irving Thornton, James Lucas, Kate Perugini, Bentley's Miscellany, Dickens, Nebraska, Erasmus Augustus Worthington, Dickens Fellowship, Wellerism, Dickens World, George and Vulture, Little Dorrit's Playground, Charles Kent, Tom Tidler's Ground. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 288. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles John Huffam Dickens (pronounced ; 7 February 18129 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent theme of social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment. The continuing popularity of his novels and shor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5884 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:'She's very weel, and shortly to be married,'replied her ladyship.' To whom, may I beg leave to ask ?'' To the Prince of Monaco.'' A friend of mine,' said the Count; but the name was not familiar to any of the rest of the party.' I 'll gie ye a Scotch mark,' she said to Mr. Ferguson ; ' it was his father that thought a' the lamps in London had been lighted up in honour of his arrival, and, as he drove through the city, he exclaimed with delight, " I 've often heard the English was a polite nation, but this is too much." I believe,' she added, ' my Jean will be a great match for him, for his principality is the very smallest in Italy; it lies, I believe, on the shore of the Mediterranean.'The Count bit his lip. ' It does,' said he, ' and the gentleman is my particular friend; he is now the ,' I forget the name.In the drawing-room, Mr. Elliot hastened to the side of his new friend, and many was the story they successively told.' You carry the leeches on your shield ?' said Mr. Elliot.' And the lion for the crest. I am the lion,' she replied.' I was once a hare myself,' returned he; and he began a story he had told the night before—how hehad acted the part of a hare to the astonishment of an old gentleman in the neighbourhood of Minto; before the end of it, however, he caught the expression of the lady's eye, and lifting up the veil which shaded her features, exclaimed—' Now, I have found the Lion of Pitlyal.'DINNER PARTY AT LORD GILLIES'S.Sir Walter Scott expressed a wish to see a personation, and Lord Gillies made a party for the purpose, among whom were Sir Walter and Miss Scott, Sir Henry and Lady Jardine, the Lord Chief Commissioner and Miss Adam, Doctor Coventry, the Chief Baron, Sir Samuel Shepherd, and others.Among other things ... ... Read more