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The traditional Christmas classic by Charles Dickens adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Gary Owen.

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards.

A Victorian master of tales from beyond the veilThe works of Charles Dickens are justifiably famous and timeless classics. His most famous ghostly tale, 'A Christmas Carol' has become THE Christmas ghost story and has been filmed and dramatised for the stage and radio on numerous occasions. It is also well known that Dickens had a particular palate for the fiction of the strange, other worldly and bizarre, indeed there have been collections of his strange and weird tales published in the past. This special Leonaur collection is different containing, perhaps, an unprecedented 35 novellas, novelettes and short stories within two coordinating volumes available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jackets.Volume one contains the evergreen 'A Christmas Carol,' the novella 'A House to Let' and nineteen short stories including 'Well-Authenticated Rappings,' 'Lying Awake,' 'The Queer Chair,' 'The Black Veil,' 'The Goodwood Ghost' and the renowned 'The Signalman'-among many others. This may be the essential Dickens Ghost Story collection and will be a joy to his many enthusiastic readers.

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, "Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickens's last complete novel, "Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, "Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most complex--and satisfying--novels.

Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. This collection of humorous sketches was first published in the Morning Chronicle under the pen name Boz. Sections include Our Parish, Through and About People, Scenes, and Tales.

Brilliant musical adaptation of Dickens' classic tale.Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year! Well, it is for everyone except the miserable Scrooge. He prefers to spend Christmas all alone in his large house, instead of celebrating with mistletoe and merriment. Bah, humbug!But one cold, dark Christmas Eve Scrooge is surprised by the ghost of Marley, his former business partner. Marley warns Scrooge that he will be called upon by three spirits - each will take him on a mysterious and magical journey to show him the error of his ways...Can Scrooge discover the true wonder and meaning of Christmas before it's too late?

The International Short Stories series is a collection of writings of internationally renowned authors. This volume, Stories from England, includes Scott and Dickens, Kipling and Crockett, Hawkins, Russell, Reade, Collins and many more.THE TWO DROVERS By Sir Walter Scott MR. DEUCEACE By W. M. ThackerayTHE BROTHERS Edward Bulmer Lytton DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT By Charles Dickens THE CALDRON OF OIL By Wilkie Collins THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE By Samuel Lover THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY By Charles Reade THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD By Rudyard Kipling THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR By R. L. Stevenson THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE By Sir A. Conan Doyle A CHANGE OF TREATMENT By W. W. Jacobs THE STICKIT MINISTER By S. R. Crockett THE LAMMAS PREACHING By S. R. Crockett AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT By F. Anstey THE SILHOUETTES By A. T. Quiller-Couch MY BROTHER HENRY By J. M. Barrie GILRAY'S FLOWER POT By J. M. Barrie MR. O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE By Charles Lever THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE MILLER OF HOFBAU By Anthony Hope Hawkins THE STOLEN BODY By H. G. Wells THE LAZARETTE OF THE "HUNTRESS" By W. Clark Russell THE GREAT TRIANGULAR DUEL By Captain Frederick Marryat THREE THIMBLES AND A PEA By George Borrow