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

by Charles Dickens & John Leech (Illustrator)

  • First published: Date unknown
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile

"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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “ghost”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “Ghosts” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

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2004-08-11Project GutenbergEnglishPublic domain (USA)

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