Charles Dickens

In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.

"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson "One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson "His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...

"A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future"--NoveList.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future, in a story with background information on Dickens and his times. Adaptaci?n de la novela de Charles Dickens para lectores de 10 a 12 a?os en el que se relata una historia de fantasmas que cuenta la inquietante noche que en la v?spera de esta festividad pasa el miserable y taca?o anciano Ebenezer Scrooge a consecuencia de la visita del...

A collection of five stories about Christmas by English author Charles Dickens.

In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.