A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Dickens's famous tale of Scrooge, ghosts, and second chances. Warm, accessible, and short enough to read in a week.
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How Classicly reads A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is book 3 of 12 in our free year-long classics reading plan. At our daily pace of 8 pages, the book takes around 2 weeks to finish.
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Why we picked it
A famous Victorian story about regret, generosity, and second chances. Told over the longest night of the year. Warm despite the cold.
Suitable for 10+. Level B2, which means readers comfortable with upper-intermediate English will follow it without a dictionary; lower-intermediate readers can read with light support.
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