Classics Made Modern: The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
Book Discussion
Wednesday, December 09
2:00pm - 3:00pm
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens
This fifth Christmas tale by Dickens is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first in the series, A Christmas Carol.
Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done to him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, a phantom twin and "an awful likeness of himself" This specter appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw agrees. As a consequence of the ghost's intervention, Redlaw is without memories of the painful incidents from his past. He experiences a universal anger that he cannot explain. His bitterness spreads to all around him, and as he perceives the horror he is causing, he beseeches the ghost for deliverance.
Check for availability of print copies through the library, ebook version is freely available through Project Gutenberg, ebook and audiobook versions through Hoopla are around 4.5 hours.
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2 pm, Wednesday, December 9, 2026
Alternative meeting time to discuss this title in person is 11 am, Tuesday, December 15, 2026.
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