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A Christmas CarolOn the coverMarley's Ghost, John Leech, 1843
A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old partner and three spirits, who walk him through his past, his present, and a future he still has time to change. The story that shaped how the English-speaking world keeps Christmas.
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The most perfect short novel of second chances ever written, warm, funny, frightening, and genuinely moving. You know the story already; reading the real thing is still a revelation.
SettingLondon, 1840s
Early-Victorian London, a city of grim workhouses and freezing garrets where industry made fortunes and let children starve. Dickens wrote to prick its conscience at the season it claimed to be kindest.