The Complete Christmas Books and Stories. Charles Dickens

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СКАЧАТЬ Tom Tiddler’s Ground

       Chapter 1 — Picking Up Soot and Cinders

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6 — Picking Up Miss Kimmeens

       Chapter 7 — Picking Up the Tinker

       Somebody’s Luggage

       Chapter 1 — His Leaving It Till Called For

       Chapter 2 — His Boots

       Chapter 3 — His Brown-Paper Parcel

       Chapter 4 — His Wonderful End

       Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings

       Chapter 1 — How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business

       Chapter 2 — How the Parlours Added a Few Words

       Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy

       Chapter 1 — Mrs. Lirriper Relates How She Went On, and Went Over

       Chapter 2 — Mrs. Lirriper Relates How Jemmy Topped Up

       Doctor Marigold

       Mugby Junction

       Chapter 1 — Barbox Brothers

       Chapter 2 — Barbox Brothers and Co.

       Chapter 3 — The Boy at Mugby

       No Thoroughfare

       The Overture

       Act 1

       The Curtain Rises

       Enter the Housekeeper

       The Housekeeper Speaks

       New Characters on the Scene

       Exit Wilding

       Act 2

       Vendale Makes Love

       Vendale Makes Mischief

       Act 3

       In the Valley

       On the Mountain

       Act 4

       The Clock-lock

       Obenreizer’s Victory

       The Curtain Falls

      A Christmas Carol

      First published : 1843

       Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost

       Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits

       Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits

       Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits

       Stave 5: The End of It

Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost

      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 door-nail.

      Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly СКАЧАТЬ