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A Christmas Carol (Illustrated): The Complete Original 1843 Edition with John Leech's First Illustrations

by Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol (Illustrated): The Complete Original 1843 Edition with John Leech's First Illustrations by Charles Dickens

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Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and ...more

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