2. Stories

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• "The Five Sisters of York" and "The Baron of Grogzwig" — tales by Charles Dickens

  22 April 2021 by Charles Dickens

  These charming stories quite imbued with the author’s sensitivity and sense of humour are narrated by travellers in Dickens’s early novel "Nicolas Nickleby" (1939) — written when he was only 27 years old — and well deserve to be read and enjoyed on their own by all admirers of the great master of (...)

• "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens

  14 November 2020 by Charles Dickens

  A Christmas Carol was a huge hit in both England and the United States when it was published shortly before Christmas in 1843.
  This 29,000-word novella was instrumental in reinvigorating popular enthusiasm for the Christmas season among the general public on both sides of the Atlantic, and it (...)

• "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - a great late story by Charles Dickens

  20 December 2014 by Charles Dickens

  This strikingly original and distinctly off-beat exploration of the mindset and life experiences of a Cheap Jack (a gypsy-like hawker of odd goods at country fairs and public places throughout the land) is darker and more sombre than the tales in his much earlier collections Sketches by Boz (...)