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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Volume 1 of 2Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1(of 2) CHAPTER I THE PICKWICKIANS The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the p...

Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves.Charles A. Scott «Old Scrooge»: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. / Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story CHARACTERS Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly brokerFrederick Merry, a nephew to ScroogeBob Cratchit, clerk to ScroogeGhost of Jac...

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