The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens

"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1848. A brooding chemistry teacher is visited by his ghostly twin, who offers a tempting gift: the ability to forget all past sorrows and wrongs, and to pass this power onto others. But when Redlaw accepts the bargain, he discovers that erasing painful memories transforms people in horrifying ways. As his gift spreads like a curse, he must confront what humanity loses when it forgets its suffering. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Man_and_the_Ghost%27s_Bargain
Credits David Price
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Christmas stories
Subject Ghost stories
Category Text
EBook-No. 644
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Mar 2, 2025
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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