A Ghost Story of Christmas: Title Page of Dickens' A_CHRISTMAS_CAROL (Project Gutenberg copy of December 1843 novel)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas BY CHARLES DICKENS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm