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A Christmas Carol in Igbo: Charles Dickens’s story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the spirits of Christmas.

Original author: Charles Dickens. Original title: A Christmas Carol. Translated into Igbo from the English original.

Ebenezer Scrooge bụ onye anya ukwu kacha njọ n’obodo London. N’abalị tupu Ekeresimesi, mmụọ onye mmekọ ahịa ya ochie, Jacob Marley (onye nwụrụ afọ asaa gara aga) batara n’ime ụlọ ya, na-adọkpụ agbụ o kere onwe ya mgbe ọ dị ndụ, bụrụ ya ozi ịdọ aka na ntị: Mmụọ Atọ ga-eleta gị.

Ihe Mmụọ Atọ ahụ gosiri ya (Ekeresimesi gara aga, nke ugbu a, na nke ga-abịa) tipịara ya, wee rụgharịa ya ọzọ, tupu chi abọọ.

“Ya mere, dịka Obere Tim kwuru, Chukwu gọzie Anyị, Onye Ọ Bụla n’Ime Anyị!”

Amaokwu nile ise dị ebe a n’uju, n’Igbo izugbe.

Dickens kpọrọ isi ọ bụla nke akwụkwọ a “stave” (amaokwu nke abụ) n’ihi na o kere akụkọ a dịka abụ Ekeresimesi e dere n’ederede nkịtị. Ya mere, n’asụsụ Igbo, isi ise ahụ bụ “Amaokwu Nke Mbụ” ruo “Amaokwu Nke Ise”.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #46. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 112 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: John Leech, Scrooge’s Third Visitor, plate in the first edition of A Christmas Carol (1843).