Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

✍ Scribed by Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Dover Publications, 2013.
• ISBN: 1306340438

✦ Synopsis

This elegant edition gathers seven spirited Yuletide fables by Charles Dickens. The heartwarming tales tell of people rescued from their own folly by mysterious strangers - including goblins, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. In addition to the author's most famous holiday tale, "A Christmas Carol," this collection features "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Chimes," "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain," "The Seven Poor Travellers," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," and "The Holly-Tree." Over sixty charming illustrations enhance this book, which will delight Dickens' fans as well as all lovers of Christmas stories.;Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; A CHRISTMAS CAROL; PREFACE; STAVE ONE -- MARLEY'S GHOST; STAVE TWO -- THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS; STAVE THREE -- THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS; STAVE FOUR -- THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS; STAVE FIVE -- THE END OF IT; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; CHIRP THE FIRST; CHIRP THE SECOND; CHIRP THE THIRD; THE CHIMES; FIRST QUARTER; THE SECOND QUARTER.; THIRD QUARTER; FOURTH QUARTER; THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN; CHAPTER I. -- THE GIFT BESTOWED.; CHAPTER II -- THE GIFT DIFFUSED; CHAPTER III -- THE GIFT REVERSED.; THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS.

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