Charles Dickens
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, The Child's Story is the account of a man's life from childhood to the present as told to his grandson in the form of a fairytale about a traveler and the people he meets. This version of The Child's Story is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
23) Marley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
They met in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys. With Jacob Marley's genius for deception and Ebenezer Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they build a shipping empire of dubious legality and pitiless commitment to the slave trade, concealing their true investments under the noses of the London authorities. When beautiful Belle Fairchild steps into Ebenezer's life and calls into question the practices that made him wealthy, Ebenezer...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
50th anniversary ed. ; Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts. Anniversary edition.
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Charles Dickens Christmas features four stories from the Victorian storyteller that encapsulate the true spirit of the holidays. Tales such as The Chimes, a New Year's story of redemption, The Cricket on the Hearth, a fairy tale of home, The Battle of Life, an inspiring love story, and The Haunted Man, a story of finding the spirit of Christmas, are the perfect complement to a cold winter's night spent curled up reading by the fire.
HarperPerennial...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (69 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of Marley, his former partner, that he will be visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
40) Oliver & company
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
20th anniversary ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oliver is a homeless kitten who roams the streets of New York City. There, he is taken in by a gang of homeless mutts who survive by stealing from others. During one of these criminal acts, Oliver meets a wealthy young girl named Jenny Foxworth. This meeting will forever change his life.