"A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth" contains three of Charles Dickens most popular Christmas-time stories. In «A Christmas Carol» we have the classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by ghosts prior to Christmas to show him the error of his ways. In «The Chimes» we have the story of Toby Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in human nature. On New Year's Eve he is visited by spirits who show him that nobody is born...
The «Christmas Story» (often a «Christmas Ghost Story») was a popular Victorian tradition. Charles Dickens, who surely needs no introduction today, took part with gusto, penning dozens of Christmas tales (the most famous being «A Christmas Carol»). We are delighted to include not just the standard fare of «A Christmas Carol,» but a total of 25 great stories (more than 1,000 pages!) Dickens penned for Yuletide reading in this volume. Included are:<P> A CHRISTMAS CAROL<BR> THE...
While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness; «The Cricket on the Hearth», the story of John Peerybingle and...
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come from the Victorian era. He created some of the most iconic characters and stories in English literature, including Mr. Pickwick from «The Pickwick Papers», Ebenezer Scrooge from «A Christmas Carol», David Copperfield, and Pip from «Great Expectations», to name a few. In 1842, Dickens and his wife travelled to the United States and Canada for the first time, and during his...
The complete works of Charles Dickens in one collection:<br><br>American Notes for General Circulation <br>Bardell v. Pickwick <br>Barnaby Rudge <br>The Battle of Life <br>Bleak House <br>A Child's History of England <br>The Chimes <br>A Christmas Carol <br>The Cricket on the Hearth <br>David Copperfield <br>Doctor Marigold <br>Dombey and Son <br>George Silverman's Explanation <br>Going into...
The essential collection of classic Christmas books and stories in one book:<br><br>The Abbot's Ghost, A Christmas Story, A. M. Barnard 1867 <br>The Sad Shepherd, A Christmas Story, Henry Van Dyke 1911 <br>Christmas Comes but Once A Year, Luke Limner 1850 <br>A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 1843 <br>A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, 1885 <br>The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Charles Dickens 1907...
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) follows the story of a boy named David who's step-father mistreats him and he's sent to boarding school. The story continues to follow David to adulthood which was also was considered to be a more of an autobiographical account of the authors own life from childhood to adulthood.<br><br>Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is a novel set during the French Revolution. "With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and...
Oliver Twist, (also known as The Parish Boy's Progress) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was first published in 1838. <br><br>"The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer...