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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is 28,321 words — about 1h 53m at 250 words per minute, across 7 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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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.…
Details
- AuthorCharles Dickens
- SourceProject Gutenberg #46
- Length28,321 words · 1h 53m of reading
- Chapters7
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-12
Contents
7 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01A CHRISTMAS CAROL
- 02PREFACE
- 03STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST
- 04STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
- 05STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
- 06STAVE IV: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
- 07STAVE V: THE END OF IT
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