Quotation from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The famous opening establishes Marley's death as fact before the ghost appears.

Citation: "MARLEY was dead: to begin with" — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave I (1843 first edition). (id a-christmas-carol-q1)

Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.

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