Orakel Classics
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 5 chapter-aware companion links.
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STAVE ONE: MARLEY'S GHOST
STAVE ONE: MARLEY'S GHOST from A Christmas Carol. 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
Open2STAVE TWO: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
STAVE TWO: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS from A Christmas Carol. When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the
Open3STAVE THREE: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
STAVE THREE: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS from A Christmas Carol. Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention. But, finding that he turned
Open4STAVE FOUR: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
STAVE FOUR: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS from A Christmas Carol. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and
Open5STAVE FIVE: THE END OF IT
STAVE FIVE: THE END OF IT from A Christmas Carol. Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends
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