Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Newton Page
ISBN-10: 1934619000
Type: Fiction
Pages: 262
Copyright: November 2009
ISBN-13: 9781934619001
Christmas Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens contains A Christmas Carol and every other ghost story Dickens ever wrote for Christmas in one volume.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) used Christmas as the setting for four classic ghost stories. Assembled here for the first time in Christmas Ghost Stories are: A Christmas Carol; The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain; and The Haunted House. As popular today as when they were first written, these stories represent the enduring and complete body of Dickens' work dedicated to the seasonal genre for which he remains so well known.
Excerpt
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.
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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