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A Christmas Carol

The original manuscript

by Charles Dickens, George Alfred Williams (Illustrator), Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) & John Leech (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Armenian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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Description

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"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1843. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser visited by the ghost of his former business partner and three Christmas spirits. Through these supernatural encounters, Scrooge confronts his lonely past, observes the present struggles of those around him, and glimpses a bleak future. The question remains: can a lifetime of greed and selfishness be transformed into compassion and generosity before it's too late? (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from austrian-national-library, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “Gespenst”, “ghost”, and “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the description, “Gespenst” in the subject metadata, “ghost” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Gespenst”· via Austrian National Library
    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “Gespenst”· in subject
    • “ghost”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 3,198 editions; 5 cataloged here.

Austrian National Library catalog record

109 S; 545; ONB availability: 43ACC_ONB | Main Stacks at Heldenplatz (MAG) | 536983-A.544 | available | Central Service Facility at Heldenplatz (NEU); Rhombus Edition

[1924]Rhombus EdEnglish—Catalog record

Open Library record

2022-10-03LibriVoxEnglish—Public

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.

2006-09-20Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

Subjects

60 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

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Open Library work
Project Gutenberg
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Austrian control number
  • AC09811259
Austrian National Library
  • 990029665740603338

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 3198 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL32466W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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