Series: Christmas Books

Book

The Cricket on the Hearth (2007)

This was a free download from Audible, and who can pass up a free Dickens?One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this one features a series of misunderstanding and coincidences in typical Dickens fashion.A Scrooge-like toymaker named Tackleton is engaged to marry a much younger woman, who clearly doe...

Book

A Christmas Carol (1999)

"Bah! Humbug!" Who does not recognise this expostulation, and the old curmudgeon who spat it out. The very name "Scrooge" has entered the vernacular to indicate a mean-spirited skinflint. "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, c...