microform, 166 pages
English language
Published April 29, 1843 by Chapman & Hall.
A Christmas carol
in prose : being a ghost story of Christmas Library of English literature -- LEL 11475.
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An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. The first of the Christmas books (Dickens released one a year from 1843–1847) it became an instant hit.