Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations). Charles Dickens

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      Christmas Classics: Charles Dickens Collection (With Original Illustrations)

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-946-6

Table of Contents

       A Christmas Carol

       The Chimes

       The Cricket on the Hearth

       The Battle of Life

       The Haunted Man

       A Christmas Tree

       What Christmas Is As We Grow Older

       The Poor Relation's Story

       The Child's Story

       The Schoolboy's Story

       Nobody's Story

       The Seven Poor Travellers

       The Holly-Tree

       The Wreck of the Golden Mary

       The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

       A House to Let

       The Haunted House

       A Message From the Sea

       Tom Tiddler's Ground

       Somebody's Luggage

       Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

       Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

       Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

       Mugby Junction

       No Thoroughfare

       Oliver Twist

       David Copperfield

       Little Dorrit

       Great Expectations

       The Pickwick Papers

       A Christmas Carol

       Table of Contents

       Stave I Marley's Ghost

       Stave II The First of the Three Spirits

       Stave III The Second of the Three Spirits

       Stave IV The Last of the Spirits

       Stave V The End of It

      PREFACE

      I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

      Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D.

      December, 1843.

      List of Illustrations

       Marley's Ghost

       Ghosts of Departed Usurers

       Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball

       Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits

       Scrooge’s Third Visitor

       Ignorance and Want

       The Last of the Spirits

       Scrooge and Bob Cratchit

STAVE I

      MARLEY'S GHOST

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      Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the