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Fiction · Parable

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens
1843 · 116 pages

Scrooge hates Christmas until his dead business partner turns up wrapped in chains and three spirits walk him through his own life. The modern Christmas takes its shape from this book.

★ 7.1