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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
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- 01Front matter~1 min
- 02STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST — part 1~25 min
- 03STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST — part 2~17 min
- 04STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS — part 1~25 min
- 05STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS — part 2~14 min
- 06STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS — part 1~25 min
- 07STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS — part 2~25 min
- 08STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS — part 3~2 min
- 09STAVE IV: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS — part 1~25 min
- 10STAVE IV: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS — part 2~9 min
- 11STAVE V: THE END OF IT~15 min
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MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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