The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
by Charles Dickens
A chemist haunted by old griefs is offered the power to forget them, and to pass that forgetting to everyone he meets. He takes it. The last of the five Christmas books and the strangest: a story about what memory is for.
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The hardest and least known of the five, and the one that stays with you. Dickens on why we keep the bad parts.
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