A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, is a collection of enchanting stories that have captivated generations. Within these pages, readers will find the most cheerful ghost story ever written and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration.

Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss, Scrooge, as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.

From Scrooge’s exclamations of “Bah!” and “Humbug!” to Tiny Tim’s heartwarming “God bless us every one!”, the story shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, and the true value of the holidays. Beneath its sentimental surface, A Christmas Carol offers a sharply critical portrait of a brutal society, and an inspiring celebration of the possibility of spiritual, psychological, and social change.

This volume also includes The Chimes, a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth, a story where the cricket remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness.

It's almost Christmas, and Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustles around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window.

So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family.

Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion, and an enquiring mind. Through a Glass, Darkly will not only bring comfort to the bereaved; it will move and amaze everyone who reads it.