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A Christmas Carol · Charles Dickens

Preface

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Read aloud by Glen Hallstrom for LibriVox. The recording is in the public domain. Total listening time: about 2 hours 44 minutes. Press play, then scroll. The next part starts by itself, or tap any part below.

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 house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

C. D.

December, 1843.

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