Charles Dickens

Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who cares for nothing beyond his ledger book, learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come.

Introduces colors using characters, places, and events from Charles Dickens's "A Christmas carol."

A Tale of Two Cities: The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have been cruelly abused by the Marquis de St. Evremonde and his brother. To ensure Dr. Manette's silence, the Marquis has him confined for eighteen years in the Bastille. The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens....

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

From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful re-imagining of Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol, in this exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. They met in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys. With Jacob Marley's genius for deception and Ebenezer Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they build a shipping empire of dubious legality and pitiless commitment to the slave...

An abridged retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.

Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.