"Charles Dickens, struggling writer, is haunted by the ghost of his lost sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. In his darkest Christmastime, she comes to him in visions to inspire his writing, to make him reflect on the pivotal moments of his life... and to spark the idea for one of the greatest Christmas stories of all time. Bonus, includes the original Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol." --

Twenty one stories first published in Household words successor.

The celebrated annotator of "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has now prepared a new edition of the Dickens classic and includes the history of the book's evolution.

"A Christmas Carol, published in December 1843, was Charles Dickens response to seeing the living and working conditions of the 19th Century poor. He wrote it in a bare six weeks, and published it six days before Christmas. That was 175 years ago. This short novel still has so much to offer the 21st century reader. Jo takes the original text and looks at it through the lens of hygge: themes of family, happiness, balance and fairness run through the...

"In 1935 Raika Radakovich died in Belgrade on Stishka Street, No. 16 A, of natural causes. Case dismissed- by the police, but not by the Nobel-prize winning Yugoslavian who reconstructs her life into this novel. A miserly old maid with one obsession, to make a million, Miss Radakovich starts out to avenge her ruined father's death by living in the "world of money." She husbanded capital happily in Sarajevo from 1906 until 1919, when money was suddenly...