Charles Dickens
61) No Thoroughfare
Christmas?! What a load of Humbug.
Mistletoe and wine just don't do it for Scrooge; he's a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn't change his ways, he'll end up with no friends and Tiny Tim won't last the year. Let's hope some spooky nighttime visitors can put the jingle back in his bells!
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One grouchy old man who can’t stop asking “How did you get this number?!”
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This carefully crafted ebook: "A Christmas Carol - with the original illustrations by John Leech" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of bitter and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation resulting from supernatural visits from Jacob
...Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in the first person from the point of view of the orphan Pip. The novel, like much of Dickens's work, draws on his experiences of life and people.
作者狄更斯在经历了丰富的社会生活后,对人,对周围的环境以及对自己的经历都有了深刻的认识,而所有他成熟的思想都汇总在《远大前程》一书中。这部作品原题名是Great
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