It's Christmastime, but Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old accountant, couldn't care less. Until he is visited in the night by three very special guests, who want to teach him the true value of Christmas. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Charles Dickens and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story. The Classics Illustrated comic book series began life in 1941 with its first issue,...

Charles Dickens books, of yester years, the value of a book in the true interpretation of its titles, and make meaning to human value, the following is a piece of this title content of Charles Dickens: The year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore-a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the Project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who...

"Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and from her teaching, all the wonder came." The third of Charles Dickens' much-loved series of Christmas Books. John Peerybingle lives with his far-younger wife, Dot, their baby and the nanny, Tilly Slowboy. Into their lives and their home come Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker and his blind daughter Bertha. Plummer's son, Edward, travelled to South America and is thought to have died there, leaving his sweetheart, May, with no option other...

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...

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...

En esta ocasion, con una estructura casi teatral, Dickens construye un cuento fantastico en el que un grillo se transmuta en sucesivas hadas. La historia se desarrolla en tres dias y esta dividida en tres cantos. El grillo, simbolo de la paz en los hogares humildes, es el eje del relato: en el primer canto, el grillo esta feliz; en el segundo, guarda silencio; en el tercero, vuelve a cantar de nuevo. Dickens ha escrito un poema en prosa sobre la vida del hogar y el carino conyugal, un esbozo de la vida de las personas sencillas."

Una autoestopista palida y cadaverica se aparece a los conductores en una carretera perdida, les salva la vida pero los vuelve locos. Un buque fantasma se dedidca a atemorizar a los pescadores de los bancos de atun haciendo hervir los mares entre la niebla e impidiendoles faenar. Un brutal asesinato, supuestamente cometido en un ritual fantasmagorico, esconde una oscura historia de contrabandistas. Tres historias de falsos espectros, de animas y aparecidos, en las que el detective Carvalho debera discernir entre lo racional y lo sobrenatural.