A Christmas Carol

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Jacob Marley

Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s former business partner. They had founded their firm, named Scrooge and Marley, together many years ago. Although Marley has been dead for seven years prior to the commencement of the novella, it is implicit that Marley was equal to Scrooge in greed and avarice.

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