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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1843 · Fantasy, Drama & Literary
On a bitter Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley and, in turn, by three Spirits - of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. In a single haunted night they show him his own lonely life, the warm poverty of his clerk's family and frail Tiny Tim, and the neglected grave that waits for a man who never learned to love. Charles Dickens's beloved ghost story of second chances - the tale that shaped Christmas itself - complete and richly illustrated.
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This edition
- Title
- A Christmas Carol
- Author
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- First published
- 1843
- Illustrated plates
- 42 original artworks · 19 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 5 · about 28,721 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 55 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #46
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