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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Charles Dickens

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, is a novella by Charles Dickens. It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centers around a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. (Summary from the Wikipedia).

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Down in the Buildings, you know, my love.—Student.”

“Student?” repeated Mr. Redlaw, raising his head.

“That’s what I say, sir!” cried Mr. William, in the utmost animation of assent.  “If it wasn’t the poor student down in the Buildings, why should you wish to hear it from Mrs. William’s lips?  Mrs. William, my dear—Buildings.”

“I didn’t know,” said Milly, with a quiet frankness, free from any haste or confusion, “that William had said anything about it, or I wouldn’t have come.  I asked him not to.  It’s a sick young gentleman, sir—and very poor, I am afraid—who is too ill to go home this holiday-time, and lives, unknown to any one, in but a common kind of lodging for a gentleman, down in Jerusalem Buildings.  That’s all, sir.”

“Why have I never heard of him?” said the Chemist, rising hurried. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Ah, Dickens! The moment I begin to resent your paper-thin characters, your contrived plots, your transparent moralizing, you come at me with a sentence so glorious that all is forgiven. And needless to say, nobody does snowy nights, crackling fires, Christmas cheer or Christmas gloom like Dickens; i

Rating this separately to my collection of Dickens' Christmas stories. My views on it are in my review of the Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings clothbound edition.

I found this story particularly difficult to process. I felt as though it was almost overworking my brain, and at times boring

Υπέροχη και καλογραμμένη ιστορία

Μικρή χριστουγεννιάτικη ιστορία από τον ειδικό. Ο Dickens είναι απολαυστικός όπως πάντα! Παρασέρνει τον αναγνώστη με πλούσιες εικόνες και άψογο γράψιμο και δημιουργεί την τέλεια ατμόσφαιρα και στη μικρή φόρμα.

I really love this novella - a great, engaging, powerful read.

Charles Dickens is often credited with inventing the modern idea of celebrating Christmas, with festive warmth and family games, mountains of presents, food feasts, trees and garlands. He also enjoyed casting a spooky, haunting mood over the holiday. To Dickens, Christmas was not only a time for fes

The Haunted Man is Dickens' longest Christmas story, though it is mostly made of repetition and pointless metaphors.

A university chemist wishes for a spectre to remove all of his pain, anguish and painful memories, whilst giving him the ability to pass that terrible curse in to others. What follows

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