A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is perhaps the best known Charles Dickens novel in all of his collections. It reflected an era when there was only an upper and lower class with a middle class starting to emerge that did not want to feel as cold as the upper class that paid no mind to the poor, but wanted to stress the merits of hard work which some felt was not common in the lower class.

Christmas is supposed to be a time to count your blessings and share with those who have nothing. It is not a time to horde more riches which cannot be taken to the place where all mankind will go. It is better to store up the other types of treasures found only in the heavens by doing good on earth while you can.

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.

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