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Title Marley [electronic resource eBook] : A novel / Jon Clinch.
Author Clinch, Jon.


Contents Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Part 1: 1807: Prelude; Chapter One; Part 2: 1787; Chapter Two; Part 3: 1800; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Part 4: 1805; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part 5: 1806; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Part 6: 1807; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Part 7: 1808; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Part 8: 1810; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty-One; Chapter Twenty-Two; Chapter Twenty-Three; Part 9: 1811; Chapter Twenty-Four; Chapter Twenty-Five.
Part 10: 1814-1817Chapter Twenty-Six; Part 11: 1818; Chapter Twenty-Seven; Chapter Twenty-Eight; Part 12: 1819; Chapter Twenty-Nine; Chapter Thirty; Part 13: 1820-1825; Chapter Thirty-One; Chapter Thirty-Two; Chapter Thirty-Three; Part 14: 1830-1832; Chapter Thirty-Four; Chapter Thirty-Five; Part 15: 1833; Chapter Thirty-Six; Part 16: 1836; Chapter Thirty-Seven; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright.
Summary From the acclaimed author of the "marvel of a novel" ( Entertainment Weekly ) Finn comes a masterful reimagining of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol with this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. "Marley was dead, to begin with," Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. But in Jon Clinch's ingenious novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent Scrooge into the gentle art of extortion. Years later, in the dank heart of London, their shared ambition manifests itself in a fledgling shipping empire. Between Marley's genius for deception and Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they amass a considerable fortune of dubious legality, all rooted in a pitiless commitment to the soon-to-be-outlawed slave trade. As Marley toys with the affections of Scrooge's sister, Fan, Scrooge falls under the spell of Fan's best friend, Belle Fairchild. Now, for the first time, Scrooge and Marley find themselves at cross-purposes. With their business interests inextricably bound together and instincts for secrecy and greed bred in their very bones, the two men engage in a shadowy war of deception, false identities, forged documents, theft, and cold-blooded murder. Marley and Scrooge are destined to clash in an unforgettable reckoning that will echo into the future and set the stage for Marley's ghostly return. Meticulously crafted and beguilingly told, Marley revisits and illuminates one of Charles Dickens's most cherished works to spellbinding effect.
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive Read.
Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle.
Subject Business -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9781982129729
STANDARD # B753FD3F-E39A-4E4F-9DFE-AB07E0109D21 OverDrive