Redlaw, a learned chemist brooding over old griefs and wrongs, is visited on a winter night by a spectral double who offers to wipe away his painful memories. He accepts, only to discover that the gift passes to everyone he meets, hardening hearts in the crowded Tetterby household and among the poor around him.
The last of Dickens’s five Christmas books, published in 1848, it carries the moral of A Christmas Carol into darker territory. Download the free EPUB.