Project Gutenberg 2007-12-24 Public domain in the USA. 7279 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 Boz Dickens, Charles John Huffam Rackham, Arthur 1867 1939 0-397-00033-2 A Christmas Carol Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915 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) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol Produced by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella written in the early 19th century. This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The novella explores themes of compassion, redemption, and the true meaning of Christmas, inviting readers to reflect on the importance of kindness and generosity. The opening of the story establishes Ebenezer Scrooge as a cold-hearted and greedy miser who dismisses Christmas as "humbug." The narrative begins with the assertion of Marley's death, emphasizing the starkness of Scrooge’s character and his isolation. Scrooge's interactions with his cheerful nephew Fred, who invites him to celebrate Christmas, reveal Scrooge's disdain for the holiday spirit. As Scrooge encounters two gentlemen collecting for the poor, he harshly rejects their appeal for charitable donations. The chapter builds a bleak picture of Scrooge's life until the haunting of Marley's ghost serves as the pivotal turning point, setting the stage for the transformative journey that will follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Christmas stories London (England) -- Fiction Poor families -- Fiction Ghost stories Misers -- Fiction Sick children -- Fiction Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction PR Text Children's Literature Christmas Category: Novels Category: Classics of Literature Category: British Literature 222471 2025-10-10T05:52:00.835474 text/html 219248 2019-08-09T11:20:08 text/html 1487849 2025-10-10T05:52:08.074349 application/epub+zip 1489065 2025-10-10T05:52:03.896381 application/epub+zip 141361 2025-10-10T05:52:02.634406 application/epub+zip 1629990 2025-10-10T05:52:11.118416 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1602741 2025-10-10T05:52:07.097382 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 252849 2022-09-11T08:05:21.123073 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189225 2025-10-10T05:52:00.160407 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 189067 2007-12-24T08:35:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 189064 2007-12-24T08:35:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 189055 2007-12-24T08:35:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25695 2025-10-10T05:52:11.274333 application/rdf+xml 14508 2025-10-10T05:52:03.131370 image/jpeg 3796 2025-10-10T05:52:02.883364 image/jpeg 73219 2007-12-24T08:35:16 application/octet-stream application/zip 73202 2007-12-24T08:35:16 application/octet-stream application/zip 1376419 2019-08-09T11:21:38 application/octet-stream application/zip 73189 2007-12-24T08:35:14 application/octet-stream application/zip 1496718 2025-10-10T05:52:00.943384 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia