Charles Dickens (1812-1870) used Christmas as the setting for four classic ghost stories. Assembled here for the first time in Christmas Ghost Stories are: A Christmas Carol; The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain; and The Haunted House. As popular today as when they were first written, these stories represent the enduring and complete body of Dickens' work dedicated to the seasonal genre for which he remains so well known.

Christmas Ghost Stories

Literature & Fiction

DICKENS., CHARLES

Genre Fiction

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The true story of a Scottish murderer, philanderer, gambler and abscondee who escaped his condemned cell in London to become the darling of the French economy, John Law of Lauriston is an account of the euphoria and wealth Law created by engineering the first stock market boom, and the despair, poverty and destroyed lives that followed its inevitable crash. John Law of Lauriston, Financier and Statesman, Founder of the Bank of France, Originator of the Mississippi Scheme, provides an historical analysis of the spectacular rise and fall of the most enigmatic genius in financial and economic history.

John Law of Lauriston: Financier and Statesman, Founder of the Bank of France, Originator of the Mississippi Scheme

Biographies & Memoirs

Wiston-Glynn, A. W.

Historical

The true story of a Scottish murderer, philanderer, gambler and abscondee who escaped his condemned cell in London to become the darling of the French economy, The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law is an account of the euphoria and wealth Law created by engineering the first stock market boom, and the despair, poverty and destroyed lives that followed its inevitable crash. First published as The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law. To Which are Added Authentic Accounts of the Darien Expedition, and the South Sea Scheme, this volume provides an authoritative historical analysis of the spectacular rise and fall of the most enigmatic genius in financial and economic history.

The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law (Newton Page Classics)

Thiers, Adolphe

First published anonymously in 1705, Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money is arguably one of the most influential texts in economic and financial history. It would foreshadow the extraordinary life and career of John Law of Lauriston who would transcend his origins as a murderer, philanderer and gambler to become the most revered financial genius in Europe. Written to prompt political and economic change in Scotland, Money and Trade Considered introduced the public to John Law’s proposals for establishing new systems of banking and paper money. A pioneering work of staggering originality and clarity, it revealed Law’s formulation of several of the most significant economic concepts ever devised.

Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money

Business & Money

Law, John.

Economics

Daniel Defoe is the father of economic and financial journalism. This anthology is testament to his remarkable insight into the European economic crises of the 1720s. His contemporary accounts of the euphoria and excess of the first ever stock market boom unleashed by John Law and his Mississippi Scheme, and the despair and poverty that followed its crash betray a chilling prescience and an unyielding strength of conviction that very few journalists have possessed since. John Law and the Mississippi Scheme: An Anthology, includes: The Chimera (1720), The Case of Mr. Law Truly Stated (1721), and Selected Journalism (1719-1722).

John Law and the Mississippi Scheme: An Anthology

DEFOE, DANIEL

Literary

Thomas Mun, The Complete Works: Economics and Trade contains both Mun’s earliest work, 'A Discourse of Trade from England unto the East Indies' (1621) which first revealed his mercantilist ideas on economics and trade to the public, and also his hugely influential second work, 'England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade' (1664) which developed those ideas, became known as the gospel of finance and commercial policy, and ruled the economic policies of Europe for over a century. Thomas Mun (1571-1641) was a successful merchant, and a director of the East India Company. Probably the most well known of the mercantilist writers, he is also considered to be one of the most enlightened.

Thomas Mun, The Complete Works: Economics and Trade

Mun, Thomas

Charles Dickens was fascinated by misers. Not only did he keep a personal copy of F. Somner Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers (1850) on his own bookshelf at Gad's Hill Place, but he also chose it to be one of the books Silas Wegg read to Nicodemus Boffin as part of his education on how to be a miser in Our Mutual Friend. Containing the equally fascinating and absurd real life stories that both enthralled and inspired Dickens, Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers brings together accounts of the most wealthy and infamous misers in history. It includes John Overs, who died while trying to save food by faking his own death, Daniel Dancer, who expired naked in a sack surrounded by his gold, and Thomas Guy, the benevolent publisher and South Sea Company investor, who chose to live in abject poverty, but founded the London hospital which bears his name and continues to save thousands of lives to this very day.

Charles Dickens: The Miser Books: Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers

Merryweather, F. Somner

Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled ‘Witchfinder General’ and the most infamous witchfinder in history, was responsible for the torture and execution of hundreds of innocent people. Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General an Anthology contains the four most important writings that defined his life and terrible activities: (1) Daemonologie (1597), by King James VI of Scotland (1566-1625). The book that inspired and justified Hopkins in his witch finding. Hopkins cited Daemonologie directly in The Discovery of Witches to justify torturing suspected witches; (2) The Witchcraft Act (1604), the law that Matthew Hopkins worked under. It prescribed the death penalty without clergy for witches; (3) Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches (1646), by John Gaule (1603-1687). The book that condemned Hopkins and his torturous methods. It marked the beginning of the end of Hopkins’ witchfinding. Hopkins responded in The Discovery of Witches. Gaule’s work was cited in the Salem with trials; (4) The Discovery of Witches (1647), by Matthew Hopkins (1620-1647). Hopkins describes his murderous practices in detail and hits back at Gaule and others by justifying the terrible deaths of the hundreds of innocents his investigations concluded were witches.

Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General: An Anthology

History

VI, King James

Gaule, John

Hopkins, Matthew

World

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