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A Christmas Carol

novella by the English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1843
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A Christmas Carol
John Leech · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

A Christmas Carol is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.93% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28,977 views/month, #264 of 28,446).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Charles Dickens[3]
  • Illustrator: John Leech[4]
  • Publisher: Chapman and Hall[5]
  • Genre: Christmas fiction[6]
  • Followed by: The Chimes[7]
  • Commons category: A Christmas Carol[8]
  • Language of work or name: British English[9], English[10]
  • Country of origin: England[11], United Kingdom[12]
  • Publication date: December 19, 1843[13]
  • Characters: Ebenezer Scrooge[14], Jacob Marley[15], Ghost of Christmas Past[16], Ghost of Christmas Present[17], Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come[18], Bob Cratchit[19], Tiny Tim[20], Mr. Fezziwig[21], Fred[22]
  • Has edition or translation: A Christmas Carol[23], Q19216583[24], El cántico de Navidad[25], Cantico di Natale[26], Les Apparitions de Noël[27], Der Weihnachts-Abend[28], A Christmas carol and other stories[29], Q124034166[30], Q124036406[31], Eene Geestverschijning[32]
  • Narrative location: London[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:A Christmas Carol[34]
  • Main subject: Christmas[35], time travel[36]
  • Commons gallery: A Christmas Carol[37]
  • Work available at URL: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/dickens/weihlied/weihlied.html[38]
  • Described by source: The New Student's Reference Work[39]
  • Title: A Christmas Carol[40]
  • Subtitle: In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas[41]
  • Different from: A Christmas Carol[42]
  • First line: Marley was dead, to begin with.[43]
  • Last line: And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One![44]
  • Derivative work: A Klingon Christmas Carol[45], Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost[46], A Christmas Carol[47], Scrooge[48]

Product Details

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  • Release type: Prose[49]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 61c00c53-19a5-47fa-a19e-1fbe9cf95770[50]

Why It Matters

A Christmas Carol has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Related Entities

Charles Dickens England Ghosts of Girlfriends Past literary work London public domain United Kingdom

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [49] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has edition or translation → A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol +16
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Has edition or translation: A Christmas Carol"
  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by → —
    Instance of → literary work
    Described by source → The New Student's Reference Work
    Derivative work → A Klingon Christmas Carol, Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, A Christmas Carol +53
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14537: zgwyk7h, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294229117|A Christmas Carol (#294229117)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8060|‎BBC Bitesize"
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