Barnes & Noble Classics: A Christmas Carol, the Chimes and the Cricket on the Hearth (Paperback)

from LeslitGS

Ebenezer Scrooge is a selfish, unhappy old miser who makes his way through valuing every aspect of his life to the measure of gold taken. But one Christmas Eve, he is visited by four ghosts who intend on showing Scrooge where he came from, where he is, and where he very may well be going. [Spoile...

from 1morechapter

This is just for Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth was his third published Christmas book, after A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, and it outsold them both. John the Carrier and his wife Dot are a couple with a new baby. Included in their home is a cricket on the hearth, who m...

from john257hopper

Christmas Books Only A Christmas Carol is worth re- reading from this collection. 4/5 A Christmas Carol As timeless a classic as ever at Christmas. The ultimate secular story about redemption. The Chimes This had some interesting things to say about class divisions in mid-19th century England, bu...

from pgchuis

I just read a Christmas Carol (not the other stories) for a book club. I haven't read it before, although the basic plot was (inevitably) familiar. It is short and moralistic, but more complex than I had expected. I liked the criticism of the church for its attempts to prevent the poor using the ...

from quaintlittlehead

Five stars to "A Christmas Carol," and four each to the other two novellas in this volume, which seem just a little bit derivative of the former. I found it a bit difficult to keep up with the characters in the latter two stories and whether the events described were real or imagined in "The Chim...