Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth and lived until 1870. The Christmas Books were first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories which Charles Dickens wrote specially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with A Christmas Carol. Over the next three years Dickens published The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth and The Battle of Life. There was no story in 1847 but a fifth, The Haunted Man, appeared in 1848.

Christmas Books

Dickens' definitive Christmas tales including A Christmas Carol and four other stories.

Category: Fiction
Publisher: White's Books
 
Hardback    £19.95
The Christmas Books

Dickens' definitive Christmas tales including A Christmas Carol and four other stories.

Category: Fiction
Publisher: White's Books
 
Hardback    £6.99
A Christmas Carol

A ghost turns up at Ebenezer Scrooge's home one Christmas Eve, dragging heavy chains, and is obviously full of great sorrow and unbearable pain. He tells him something that might change his life forever.

Category: Fiction 10+
Publisher: Campfire
 
Paperback    £6.99
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Cover design or artwork by Steven Jones By Charles Dickens

Arguably the greatest coming-of-age story in English Literature, Great Expectations is Dickens' most popular novel.

Category: Fiction
Publisher: White's Books
 
Hardback    £6.99
 
Hardback    £19.95
Oliver Twist

Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan like him.

Category: Fiction 10+
Publisher: Campfire
 
Paperback    £6.99