By Charles Dickens

Illustrations by John Leech. Probably Dickens’s best known work, certainly a permanent fixture every Christmas. Feuding with his publishers, Dickens financed the publishing of the book himself, ordering lavish binding, gilt edging, and hand-colored illustrations and then setting the price at no more than five shillings. This combination resulted in disappointingly low profits despite high sales.

Chapman and Hall. (1843) 101 pages.