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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - cover

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Charles Dickens

Publisher: Caelwick Press

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority i This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
Available since: 06/06/2026.
Print length: 115 pages.

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