A complete, illustrated edition of Charles Dickens's tale in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Wild and beautiful Charlotte challenges the social mores of Victorian London by marrying a soldier bound for Kabul and losing her heart to another, and sets a pattern for her granddaughter Alexandra and later her great-granddaughter Cara to follow as they struggle to find their own places in the world.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.

"The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work required to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth, all...

In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.

Presents the complete thirteen episode collection of Granada Television's The adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, in which Holmes, assisted by Dr. Watson, solves crimes in 19th-century England.

A successful government minister is threatened when a lady appears with damning evidence of a past misdeed. He turns for help to his friend, an apparently idle philanderer, who takes matters in hand.