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

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

UEbenezer Scrooge uyindoda encishanayo kunazo zonke eLondon, ethanda imali ngaphezu kwakho konke. Ngobusuku bukaKhisimusi umlingani wakhe wakudala ebhizinisini, uJacob Marley, owashona eminyakeni eyisikhombisa edlule, ungena ekamelweni lakhe edonsa amaketango azenzela wona esaphila, futhi uphethe isixwayiso: uzovakashelwa yimimoya emithathu.

Imimoya emithathu imkhombisa uKhisimusi odlule, owamanje nozayo. Lokho akubonayo kuyamaphula, bese kumakha kabusha, kungakasi.

‘UNkulunkulu asibusise, sonke ngamunye!’

Inguqulo entsha ngesiZulu: zonke izigaba ezinhlanu ziphelele.

IsiZulu wulimi olukhulunywa emakhaya ngabantu abaningi kunazo zonke eNingizimu Afrika, futhi lungolunye lwezilimi ezisemthethweni zaleli zwe.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #46. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 100 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: John Leech, Scrooge’s Third Visitor, plate in the first edition of A Christmas Carol (1843).