description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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.
language: English
title: A Christmas Carol
titlecomplete: A Christmas Carol
characters: Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Past, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Fred (A Christmas Carol)
genres: Audiobook, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Holiday, School, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 792474
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society