Charles Dickens

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. Includes an account of Dicken's first reading of the story, and a biographical sketch.

King Watkins the First is proud of his eldest daughter's magical gift but wonders why she isn't using it.

A simplified retelling of the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.