Bells, Ghosts and Firesides

All five of Charles Dickens's original Christmas Books in one collection, beginning with the most famous Christmas story ever told.

Between 1843 and 1848 Dickens published five Christmas Books. The first, A Christmas Carol, follows the miser Ebenezer Scrooge through one extraordinary night with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In The Chimes, the bells of an old London church show a poor porter visions of the year ahead. The Cricket on the Hearth is a gentle fairy tale of home, The Battle of Life a story of love and sacrifice between two sisters, and The Haunted Man a dark and moving tale of a chemist who bargains away his memories.

Read together, the five books show why Dickens is called the man who invented Christmas: generous, funny, haunting and full of hope.