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A Christmas Carol (1843) follows the tight-fisted London moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge across the Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley and three spirits who carry him through scenes of his past, his present, and a future he still has time to refuse. Dickens wrote it in six weeks to revive the public spirit of Christmas; it did rather more than that, fixing in the English language an entire vocabulary of conscience, hauntings, and last-minute redemption.
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