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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and to come are as much a part of a traditional Christmas as mistletoe, carolers, and candlelight processions. Also included in this heartwarming collection are the Dickens stories "A Christmas Tree," "Christmas Dinner," and the Christmas chapters from The Pickwick Papers. Since A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843, the tale of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, humble Bob Crachit, and beloved Tiny Tim has taken a special place in the heart of our Christmas tradition. The most famous celebration of Christmas--and family love--in the English language shows us the nature of true charity, the power of tenderness and the wisdom of innocence in a cold-hearted world.
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.

Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.

The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance—literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names: it was all the same to him.

Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often 'came down' handsomely, and Scrooge never did.

Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, 'My dear Scrooge, how are you? when will you come to see me?' No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was 'oclock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blindmen's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'no eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!'

But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge.

Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement-stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already: it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
Copyright © 1986 by Charles Dickens. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
  • WINNER | 2005
    Audie Awards
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836–37) he achieved immediate fame. In a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39), and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57), which reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860–61), and Our Mutual Friend (1864–65) complete his major works. View titles by Charles Dickens

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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and to come are as much a part of a traditional Christmas as mistletoe, carolers, and candlelight processions. Also included in this heartwarming collection are the Dickens stories "A Christmas Tree," "Christmas Dinner," and the Christmas chapters from The Pickwick Papers. Since A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843, the tale of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, humble Bob Crachit, and beloved Tiny Tim has taken a special place in the heart of our Christmas tradition. The most famous celebration of Christmas--and family love--in the English language shows us the nature of true charity, the power of tenderness and the wisdom of innocence in a cold-hearted world.

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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.

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.

Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.

The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance—literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names: it was all the same to him.

Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often 'came down' handsomely, and Scrooge never did.

Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, 'My dear Scrooge, how are you? when will you come to see me?' No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was 'oclock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blindmen's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'no eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!'

But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge.

Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement-stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already: it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
Copyright © 1986 by Charles Dickens. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Awards

  • WINNER | 2005
    Audie Awards

Author

Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836–37) he achieved immediate fame. In a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39), and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57), which reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860–61), and Our Mutual Friend (1864–65) complete his major works. View titles by Charles Dickens

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    Charles Dickens
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    Charles Dickens
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    Modern Library
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    David Copperfield
    Charles Dickens
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    Charles Dickens
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    Oct 31, 2000
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    The Pickwick Papers
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043611-2
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    Penguin Classics
    Aug 01, 2000
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    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043614-3
    $14.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043512-2
    $10.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Nov 01, 1999
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    Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Saki
    978-0-375-75216-2
    $15.00 US
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    Modern Library
    Sep 29, 1998
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043431-6
    $19.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043497-2
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    Penguin Classics
    Feb 01, 1998
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043345-6
    $20.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-44373-5
    $26.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Aug 01, 1995
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    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Introduction by William Boyd
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-43884-7
    $30.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Mar 20, 1995
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    Dombey and Son
    Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-43591-4
    $35.00 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Oct 04, 1994
  • A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Charles Dickens, Arthur Rackham
    978-0-679-43639-3
    $15.95 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Sep 27, 1994
  • Nicholas Nickleby
    Nicholas Nickleby
    Introduction by John Carey
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-42307-2
    $28.00 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Oct 26, 1993
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    Introduction by Barbara Hardy
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-40568-9
    $32.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Oct 15, 1991
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    A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-72965-5
    $12.00 US
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-553-21176-4
    $6.95 US
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    Bantam Classics
    May 01, 1989
  • Selected Short Fiction
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043103-2
    $14.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Jul 30, 1976
  • A Christmas Carol
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    Charles Dickens, Shona McKellar
    978-0-7440-2402-9
    $15.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    DK Children
    Dec 22, 2020
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    Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-7440-2411-1
    $12.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    DK Children
    Dec 01, 2020
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    Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
    A Book-to-Table Classic
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-47992-1
    $25.00 US
    Hardcover
    Puffin Books
    Oct 16, 2018
  • Scrooge #worstgiftever
    Scrooge #worstgiftever
    Charles Dickens, Brett Wright
    978-0-399-55065-2
    $9.99 US
    Ebook
    Random House Books for Young Readers
    Sep 27, 2016
  • A Christmas Carol
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    Charles Dickens, Mary Kate McDevitt, Mark Peppe
    978-0-14-751289-5
    $9.99 US
    Paperback
    Puffin Books
    Oct 16, 2014
  • A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens, John Leech
    978-0-14-312249-4
    $16.00 US
    Hardcover
    Penguin Classics
    Oct 08, 2014
  • The Pickwick Papers
    The Pickwick Papers
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-698-16182-5
    $4.99 US
    Ebook
    Signet
    Jun 03, 2014
  • Great Expectations (Movie Tie-In)
    Great Expectations (Movie Tie-In)
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-698-15599-2
    $7.99 US
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    Penguin Books
    Oct 23, 2013
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    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens, Jessica Hische
    978-0-14-312379-8
    $28.00 US
    Hardcover
    Penguin Books
    Dec 12, 2012
  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-242335-6
    $7.99 US
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    Puffin Books
    Sep 13, 2012
  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94716-1
    $7.95 US
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    Vintage
    Jan 10, 2012
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    David Copperfield
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94717-8
    $12.00 US
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    Vintage
    Jan 10, 2012
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    Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94718-5
    $10.00 US
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    Vintage
    Jan 10, 2012
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    Hard Times
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94720-8
    $9.00 US
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    Vintage
    Jan 10, 2012
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    Bleak House
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94719-2
    $13.00 US
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    Vintage
    Jan 03, 2012
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-53202-2
    $3.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Signet
    Dec 06, 2011
  • A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    And Other Christmas Books
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-94721-5
    $11.00 US
    Paperback
    Vintage
    Nov 29, 2011
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    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-75837-8
    $4.99 US
    Ebook
    Random House Books for Young Readers
    Aug 31, 2011
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    Bleak House
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-53190-2
    $8.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Signet
    Apr 05, 2011
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    Great Expectations
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Charles Dickens, Tom Haugomat
    978-0-14-310627-2
    $16.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Dec 28, 2010
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    A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Bantam Classics Editions)
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-345-52964-0
    $6.99 US
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    Bantam Classics
    Dec 09, 2010
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    Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens, Jean Zallinger
    978-0-307-75891-0
    $6.99 US
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    Random House Books for Young Readers
    Dec 08, 2010
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    A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)
    Two Novels
    Charles Dickens
    978-1-101-49951-1
    $5.99 US
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    Penguin Books
    Dec 06, 2010
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    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
    Introduction by Margaret Atwood
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-27175-4
    $22.00 US
    Hardcover
    Everyman's Library
    Nov 10, 2009
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-8129-8045-5
    $12.00 US
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    Modern Library
    Oct 06, 2009
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    Charles Dickens
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    Puffin Books
    Mar 05, 2009
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    Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-53118-6
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    Signet
    Feb 03, 2009
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    A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-132452-4
    $7.99 US
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    Puffin Books
    Sep 11, 2008
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    Hard Times
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-53099-8
    $5.95 US
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    Signet
    Jul 01, 2008
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    Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-132243-8
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    Puffin Books
    Jun 19, 2008
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    978-0-451-53057-8
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    Signet
    Feb 06, 2007
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    Charles Dickens
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    $6.95 US
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    Signet
    Feb 07, 2006
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    Barnaby Rudge
    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-307-26290-5
    $30.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Nov 08, 2005
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    Oliver Twist
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-451-52971-8
    $5.95 US
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    Signet
    Apr 05, 2005
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    David Copperfield
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043944-1
    $10.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Dec 28, 2004
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    The Haunted House
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-8129-7306-8
    $14.00 US
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    Modern Library
    Oct 12, 2004
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    Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-143996-9
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    Penguin Classics
    Jan 27, 2004
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043905-2
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    Penguin Classics
    Sep 30, 2003
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    The Pickwick Papers
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    978-0-8129-6727-2
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    Modern Library
    Aug 12, 2003
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    May 27, 2003
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    Penguin Classics
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-143967-9
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    Apr 29, 2003
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    Apr 29, 2003
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    Penguin Classics
    Nov 26, 2002
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-375-76114-0
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    Modern Library
    Sep 10, 2002
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    Penguin Classics
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    Charles Dickens, H. K. Browne
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    Charles Dickens
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    Oct 09, 2001
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    Charles Dickens
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    Jul 10, 2001
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    Jul 01, 2001
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043742-3
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    Penguin Classics
    Jul 01, 2001
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    Charles Dickens
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    Modern Library
    Feb 13, 2001
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-78341-1
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    Modern Library
    Nov 28, 2000
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-64133-9
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    Oct 31, 2000
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    Charles Dickens
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    Penguin Classics
    Aug 01, 2000
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043614-3
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    Penguin Classics
    Aug 01, 2000
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043512-2
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    Penguin Classics
    Nov 01, 1999
  • The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
    The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
    Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library
    Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Saki
    978-0-375-75216-2
    $15.00 US
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    Modern Library
    Sep 29, 1998
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    Pictures from Italy
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043431-6
    $19.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    Jul 01, 1998
  • Our Mutual Friend
    Our Mutual Friend
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043497-2
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    Penguin Classics
    Feb 01, 1998
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043345-6
    $20.00 US
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    Penguin Classics
    May 01, 1996
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
    The Old Curiosity Shop
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-44373-5
    $26.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Aug 01, 1995
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    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Introduction by William Boyd
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-43884-7
    $30.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Mar 20, 1995
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    Dombey and Son
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-43591-4
    $35.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Oct 04, 1994
  • A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Charles Dickens, Arthur Rackham
    978-0-679-43639-3
    $15.95 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Sep 27, 1994
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    Nicholas Nickleby
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-42307-2
    $28.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Oct 26, 1993
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-40568-9
    $32.00 US
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    Everyman's Library
    Oct 15, 1991
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-679-72965-5
    $12.00 US
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    Jul 14, 1990
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    A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens
    978-0-553-21176-4
    $6.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Bantam Classics
    May 01, 1989
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    Charles Dickens
    978-0-14-043103-2
    $14.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Classics
    Jul 30, 1976
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