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A reminiscence of the Christmas tree tradition and the stories told around them. Maybe some of the tales will sound familiar. 'A Christmas Tree' is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Little Nell Trent's childhood is over. Her grandfather's mind is failing, his dark secret makes him sad and distracted and he has nobody to care for him but Nell. The grotesque Daniel Quilp is out to cause trouble. What plans does he hatch with the dreadful Sampson and Sally Brass? What use can he hope to make of the foolish Dick Swiveller? Is Nell’s one true friend, Kit, a match for Quilp's villainous mind? Nell and her grandfather must disappear or be separated forever and so they begin their lives as beggars.

Featuring work by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Clara Venn and Hume Nisbet, this collection of nine enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - evoke the many spirits of Christmas. Featuring misty journeys to distant loved ones, Christmas Eve manifestations and lonely, frost-filled vigils.

A Christmas classic written by Charlies Dickens. Narrated by Ian Pringle. This production includes original music by UK-based folk duo, Intarsia. A festive feast for your ears, heart, and mind.

The society of the early 19th century in England was not especially kind to orphans, and young Pip is no exception. Forced to live a life of sneaking and stealing from an early age, he has trouble finding a place to belong and make a home for the beginning of his life. When he meets the lonely and reclusive Miss Havisham, it seems that his luck changes, as his relationship with her inspires him to begin making an honest living in a trade. But when he suddenly gains a mysterious inheritance, his life is totally transformed, and he is able to live beyond his wildest dreams.

First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is arguably Charles Dickens' most famous work. In this classic tale, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts. Each of them shows Scrooge scenes intended to make him change his evil ways. 

Esther Summerson, a young woman raised in a tough and unloving atmosphere, is unexpectedly requested to be a companion to two teenage orphans, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, for whom the court has appointed as guardian, John Jarndyce. They take up residence at Mr. Jarndyce’s home, Bleak House. The story of their lives and fortunes is the main thrust of the novel, and is related at times through the eyes of Esther, whose gentle point of view gives the listener a different and more intimate perspective.

David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens and was published in 1850. The story is told in the first person by David Copperfield. Now he is a grown man and tells us the story of his youth and his journey of self-discovery. He had an unhappy childhood, and his father died before he was born. We hear his story until his middle age when he becomes a successful novelist. His journey is full of adventures and numerous friends and enemies.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on December 19, 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

A charming novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first in the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centres on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him.

The Seven Poor Travellers takes place on Christmas Eve in Rochester at the charity hospice founded in 1579 by Richard Watts - an actual hospice that Dickens knew well from his childhood days. According to Watts' will, his hospice was to supply six poor travelers (providing they were not rogues or proctors) with one night's free lodging and entertainment and with fourpence.

Mysterious, dark and full of excitement, Oliver Twist takes audiences on a compelling journey through the crime-haunted alleys of Victorian London. This vivid retelling for children is remarkably faithful to Charles Dickens' masterpiece while Tony Robinson's narration brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of 1830s London.

Ohne Vater und Mutter wächst Oliver Twist in einem Waisenhaus auf. Die harte Arbeit als Totengräber-Gehilfe und der Hunger bestimmen sein Leben. Er flieht nach London und fällt in die Hände des zwielichtigen Hehlers Fagin. Der bringt Oliver das Diebes-Handwerk bei. Eine kriminelle Laufbahn scheint vorgezeichnet, bis der gutherzige Mr. Brownlow sich seiner erbarmt und annimmt. Doch das Schicksal ist grausam: Oliver Twist verirrt sich in den Gassen der Stadt und wird von Fagin eingefangen.

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens's journal Household Words, The Schoolboy's Story recounts the tale of Old Cheeseman, a schoolboy who becomes the second Latin Master, and his former peers who consider him a traitor for doing it. This version of The Schoolboy's Story was recorded as part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

> Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternate title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.

La obra de Charles Dickens narra la historia de Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño, a quien durante una gélida Nochebuena, recibe la visita del espectro de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley, quien hace desfilar ante Scrooge la visión de los espíritus de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras intentando conmover su corazón. Tras esta visita y tras visionar la soledad y la muerte que le aguardan, Scrooge cambiará su modo de ver la vida.

L'opera (qui nella traduzione di Silvio Spaventa Filippi) fu scritta a puntate, come le precedenti, nel 1843-44, ma la tiratura delle copie fu circa la metà dei precedenti successi di Dickens, per cui ci fu una rottura con gli editori che costrinsero Dickens a rimborsare il denaro da loro spesi. Dickens cambiò allora il titolo dell'opera in "America", approffittando del suo viaggio in America per inserire una satira di quel continente e dei suoi abitanti, satira tanto più feroce in quanto sentiva che il nuovo mondo aveva distrutto delle illusioni di quanti speravano di vedervi realizzati i propri ideali.

Der Dienstmann Toby Veck führt mit seiner Tochter Meg ein ärmliches Leben. Am Silvesterabend gesteht Meg ihrem Vater, an Neujahr den Tischler Richard Johnson heiraten zu wollen. Der Armenrichter Alderman Cute, auf dessen Treppe Vater und Tochter Veck zu Abend essen, prophezeit Meg eine düstere Zukunft, als er von ihren Plänen erfährt. Er, der selbsternannte "Freund der Armen", ist auf der Jagd nach Will Fern, einem arbeitslosen Kutscher der aus dem Schuldengefängnis entkommen ist.

Roman o klube smeshnyh, simpatichnyh dzhent'l'menov, sozdannym Samujelem Pikvikom, puteshestvujushhih po strane, izobrazhaet nravy staroj Anglii i mnogoobrazie chelovecheskih tipov. Veselyj, ostroumnyj, polnyj velikolepnogo anglijskogo jumora. Mnogie gody javljaetsja odnoj iz ljubimyh knig chitatelej vsego mira. Posmertnye zapiski Pikvikskogo kluba zanjali sto shestuju strochku v spiske 200 luchshih knig v mirovoj literature po versii BBC.

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