The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Dickens, Charles
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Charles Dickens' The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is about the spirit of the holidays harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centers around a Professor Redlaw, a chemistry teacher who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past life and those close to him. He is haunted by a spirit who proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw…mehr

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Charles Dickens' The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is about the spirit of the holidays harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centers around a Professor Redlaw, a chemistry teacher who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past life and those close to him. He is haunted by a spirit who proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw is hesitant at first, but finally agrees. However, before the spirit vanishes it imposes an additional consequence: "The gift that I have given you, you shall give again, go where you will."
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other social reforms.