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Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season.

David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms h

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

ruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town.

Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846.

The Cricket on the Hearth is the third in Charles Dickens' series of Christmas classics that started with his beloved A Christmas Carol.

Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister Kate is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take Kate on?

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610