"Tom looked up at the dark and silent building. 'Angela,' he said quietly to himself, 'where are you?' A short distance away a man in a grey raincoat stood in a dark doorway. He was watching Tom, watching every move he made..." --cover.
"'Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman. 'I have come to ask for your help because it is Christmas. I want money to help the poor people who have no money and no homes.' 'Aren't there any prisons?' asked Scrooge. 'Aren't there any workhouses? Put these people in prisons and workhouses.' 'But prisons and workhouses are very unpleasant places. I am sure you want people to have a merry Christmas,' replied the gentleman. 'I don't have a merry Christmas,' said Scrooge. 'Christmas is nonsense. It's humbug! I don't believe in Christmas. I'm not giving money to anyone else so they can have a merry Christmas.' " --back cover.
The Canterville Ghost: Mr. Hiram B. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted country house. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the house, warns Mr. Otis that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted it ever since he killed his wife, Eleonore, three centuries before. But Mr. Otis dismisses the ghost story as bunk and disregards Lord Canterville's warnings. When the Otises learn that the house is indeed haunted, they succeed in victimizing the ghost and in disregarding age-old British traditions
Follows the adventures of Phileas Fogg, an imperturbable English gentleman, as, in 1872, he tries to win his wager that he can travel around the world in eighty days.