A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

by Charles Dickens · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 1,428 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Christmas stories · Ghost stories · London (England) — Fiction · Misers — Fiction

Words worth knowing: gruel · pigtail · ding · unaltered · icicle · gravy · credential · juicy

A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens 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.

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