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Scrooge, three spirits, and one long night. Five staves, perfect for a week of evenings. Type the whole of Charles Dickens’s book, chapter by chapter, free in your browser.
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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 clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Click to start typing
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Chapters
- 1Marley's Ghost6,456 words
- 2The First of the Three Spirits6,175 words
- 3The Second of the Three Spirits8,252 words
- 4The Last of the Spirits5,368 words
- 5The End of It2,307 words
Questions
Is this the whole of A Christmas Carol?
Yes. It is the complete text of Charles Dickens’s 1843 book, which is in the public domain, split into its 5 chapters. Only the quotation marks and dashes are tidied so they are easy to type.
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