A Christmas Carol

Old man Scrooge has no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas Eve, Marley's Ghost pays Scrooge a visit and takes him on an eerie night-time journey. The Christmas spirits show Scrooge the error of his nasty ways by visiting his past, present and future... Will Scrooge learn to love Christmas and everyone around him?

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton may look the same but their personalities are very different. One day, in the midst of the French Revolution, Charles flees to London to escape the trouble in France. But he learns that his servant is facing death, he returns to Paris to save him. Charles' own life is endangered on the way and he is captured. Sydney may be able to help him - but will their stron…

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The Signalman and Ghost at The Trial

In his lifetime, Charles Dickens thrilled and entertained audiances by reading aloud extracts from his novels and tales of the supernatural. These two chilling short stories show Dickens to be a masterful writer of the mid-nineteenth century ghost story.

Great Expectations

This story is the first person account of Pip, an orphan, whos is adopted by his cruel sister and brother-in-law, who adores him. He comes across two people who change the course of his life - an escaped convict and the weird Miss Havisham. Pim falls in love with the beautiful but proud Estella, whom he would continue to love throughout his life. Soon, he finds luck to meet good people and expe…

A Tale of Two Cities

The novel unfolds the plight of demoralised French peasantry, brutality shown by revolutionaries on former French aristocrats as well as parallel social lives in London. When Lucie wants to bring home her father, who is languishing in French prison for two decades, her family is also embroiled in the revolution. Meanwhile, a complex love trial a develops in a dramatic turn of events as a revolu…

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas, three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham's superb line drawings.

A Christmas Carol

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-0-451-53202-2

Collation

xxiv, 200 hal.; 17 cm.

Series Title

Signet Classics

Call Number

823 Dic c

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