"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.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited, nasty old man who holds everything in contempt - even Christmas! But when three spirits visit him one ghostly Christmas Eve, Scrooge is taken on a journey into the past, present and future that will change him forever.
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. . .
Phileas Fogg, an Englishman, undertakes a hasty world tour as the result of a bet made at his London club.