Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Classics: (English)

Series: English

I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D., December, 1843.The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim.