Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Sketches
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Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Sketches

The Christmas Books and Other Seasonal Pieces

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eBook - ePub

Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Sketches

The Christmas Books and Other Seasonal Pieces

About this book

Six works in one volume: The Haunted Man, The Battle of Life, Some Christmas Stories, Three Ghost Stories, To Be Read at Dusk and the Mudfog sketches - the Christmas books and the ghost pieces Dickens wrote for the season. He gave public readings from several of these for the rest of his life. This edition is bound with 53 plates of paintings by George Cruikshank, Edvard Munch, Henry Fuseli and others, dating from 1760 to 1925.

Information

Publisher
Aeneas Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9785501453753
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. Chapter I The Gift Bestowed
  4. Chapter II The Gift Diffused
  5. Chapter III The Gift Reversed
  6. Part the First
  7. Part the Second
  8. Part the Third
  9. Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Tree. [1850]
  10. What Christmas Is as We Grow Older. [1851]
  11. The Poor Relation’s Story. [1852]
  12. The Child’s Story. [1852]
  13. The Schoolboy’s Story. [1853]
  14. Nobody’s Story
  15. Three Ghost Stories
  16. The Haunted House. In Two Chapters.
  17. The Mortals in the House.
  18. The Ghost in Master B.’s Room.
  19. The Trial for Murder.
  20. The Signal-Man.
  21. To be Read at Dusk
  22. Hunted Down [1860] I.
  23. II.
  24. III.
  25. IV.
  26. V.
  27. The Mudfog and Other Sketches
  28. Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble Once Mayor of Mudfog
  29. Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything
  30. ‘Section A.—Zoology and Botany.
  31. ‘Section B.—Anatomy and Medicine.
  32. ‘Section C.—Statistics.
  33. ‘Section D.—Mechanical Science.
  34. Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything
  35. ‘Section A.—Zoology and Botany.
  36. ‘Section B.—Display of Models and Mechanical Science.
  37. ‘Section C.—Anatomy and Medicine.
  38. ‘Section D.—Statistics.
  39. ‘Supplementary Section, E.—Umbugology and Ditchwaterisics.
  40. The Pantomime of Life
  41. Some Particulars Concerning a Lion
  42. Mr. Robert Bolton the ‘Gentleman Connected with the Press’
  43. Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months
  44. About the Author

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