Charles Dickens · novella-series
Christmas Books books in order
A sequence of five separately published Christmas novellas issued by Dickens between 1843 and 1848.
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- 1 A Christmas Carol
Book 1 · novella · 1843
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a…
- 2 The Chimes
Book 2 · novella · 1844
The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve. Newly designed and typeset for modern readers by Waking Lion Press.
- 3 The Cricket on the Hearth
Book 3 · novella · 1845
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a…
- 4 The Battle of Life
Book 4 · novella · 1846
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand…
- 5 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Book 5 · novella · 1848
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances,…
