"Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
"Come, then", returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be
dismal? You're rich enough." With his world-famous story "A Christmas'
Carol", Charles Dickens humorously demonstrates that money alone does
not buy happiness. His protagonist, grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge, is haunted
by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The spine-chilling night visitors
confront the old miser with his cold-heartedness. When Scrooge awakes
the next morning, nothing is as it was before... This edition contains
the original illustrations of the english first edition published in
1843.