A Christmas Carol
A miser, a ghost and three Christmas spirits. Read all five staves in English.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, miserly old man who hates Christmas. On Christmas Eve the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, warns him to change, and three more spirits show him his past, the present day and a bleak future. The story is told in five staves, which are like chapters.
Staves
- 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
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843 (Chapman & Hall). Public domain.