🕯️A Christmas Carol 🕯️

Written in just 6 weeks, A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve.

Dickens wrote that he “saw” his characters and that the Cratchits were “ever tugging at his coat sleeve, as if impatient for him to get back to his desk and continue the story of their lives”.

Well known caricaturist and illustrator John Leech produced the engravings that illustrated the original publication.

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"You must remember the person you once were...

...So as to understand the person you are...

...And become the person that you might yet be."

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The Ghost of Christmas Past and Elizabeth Scrooge in a panel from page 26 of the graphic novel, _A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story_ by José-Luis Munuera.

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