A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · English · 2 chapters · 49 pages
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How it begins
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 dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to…
Opening chapters only; the rest of the work is not included. Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg, ebook 46.
What it is about
Scrooge, Marley’s ghost and the first of the three spirits. Dickens at his briskest: rhythmic sentences, lists, exclamations and a rich but clear Victorian vocabulary.
Typing difficulty: Medium. 4.3 letters per word on average · 19 words per sentence · 3% of words with ten letters or more
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