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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth- The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree- What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relation's Story- The Child's Story- The Schoolboy's Story- Nobody's Story- The Seven Poor Travellers- The Holly-Tree- Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners- Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddler's Ground- Somebody's Luggage- Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy- Doctor Marigold- Mugby Junction- No Thoroughfare

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth- The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree- What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relation's Story- The Child's Story- The Schoolboy's Story- Nobody's Story- The Seven Poor Travellers- The Holly-Tree- Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners- Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddler's Ground- Somebody's Luggage- Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy- Doctor Marigold- Mugby Junction- No Thoroughfare

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relation's Story - The Child's Story- The Schoolboy's Story- Nobody's Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly-Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddler's Ground - Somebody's Luggage - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relation's Story - The Child's Story- The Schoolboy's Story- Nobody's Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly-Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddler's Ground - Somebody's Luggage - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare

Charles Dickens was a major contributor to the romantic revival of Christmas traditions that occurred in the Victorian era. With their heart, humor and good morals, Dickens' Christmas stories have made the author's name synonymous with the season. Here we present four charming novellas to complete his series that began with A Christmas Carol, with echoes of sleigh bells throughout. The stories include The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.

A Christmas Tree I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton), perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping; there were jolly, broad-faced little men, much more agreeable in appearance than many real men -- and no wonder, for their heads took off, and showed them to be full of sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums. . . .

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends. Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

Charles Dickens was a British writer that is generally regarded as the greatest author of the Victorian era and one of the finest to have ever lived. Dickens' writings provided the most accurate portrayal, as well as the sharpest criticism, of England during the Victorian era. On top of classic long novels such as A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist, Dickens also wrote A Christmas Carol, which is considered by many to be the best Christmas story ever told. This collection includes the following books: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain