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A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas.

Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas, and he doesn’t like people. He’s a cold, hard man. He only loves money! But on Christmas Eve something strange happens: some ghosts visit him! They show him his past life, his life now and a possible future. Will old Scrooge learn anything from the ghosts?

David’s childhood is a happy one, but after his mother’s marriage to cruel Mr Murdstone, his life changes for the worse. David is sent to London to work in a factory. Is this going to be his life? He desperately wants to change his future, and decides to run away…

David’s life changes for the worse when his mother dies and he is left with a cruel stepfather who sends him to work in London. But he doesn’t want to work in a factory all his life, so he runs away and finds a kind relative who is willing to help him. As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble, hardship and cruelty. But he also finds friendship, kindness and… love....

Pip is destined to become a village blacksmith, but a chance meeting with an escaped prisoner and the acquaintance of an eccentric old woman and a beautiful young girl change the course of his life. He is suddenly dissatisfied with his social status and wants to become a gentleman. But one day he discovers a terrible secret.

Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a vast amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman.

Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s The Five Orange Pips; in Charles Dickens’ Hunted Down a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in The Stir Outside the Café Royal by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in G. K. Chesterton’s The Oracle of the Dog Father Brown solves a difficult murder case.