Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, cold-hearted creditor, continues his stingy, greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation, and all the good tidings of the holiday, from his jolly nephew, Fred; he yells at charity workers; and he overworks his employee, Bob Cratchit. At night, Scrooge's former partner Jacob Marley, dead for seven years, visits him in the form of a ghost. Marley's spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for being consumed with business and not with people while alive. He has come to warn Scrooge and perhaps save him from the same fate. He tells him Three Spirits will come to him over the next three nights.

I could forget everything but you...

A ghost of different shades...

The stories we tell ourselves...

It is always hard to define love , yet alone understand how it works. However you spend a lifetime needing it and searching for it. But what are the repercussions when a romantic heart and an over-analytical mind clash in search of the only absolute peace that can complete them? The fight is intense while logic battles with emotion...

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels, among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite. Catherine is invited by the Allens, her wealthier neighbours in Fullerton, to accompany them to visit the town of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social delights. Although initially the excitement of Bath is dampened by her lack of acquaintances, she is soon introduced to a clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, with whom she dances and converses. Much to Catherine's disappointment, Henry does not reappear in the subsequent week and, not knowing whether or not he has left Bath for good, she wonders if she will ever see him again. Through Mrs Allen's old school-friend Mrs Thorpe, she meets her daughter Isabella, a vivacious and flirtatious young woman, and the two quickly become friends. Mrs Thorpe's son John is also a friend of Catherine's older brother, James, at Oxford where they are both students.

The story takes place in a dark and dirty room, in an old warehouse in the worst neighbourhood of the city. 5 young guys, play in a hustle poker game. They all bet their money in this game, each one of them giving all they could relative to their financial statuses. The risk is high. They are all nervous for the outcome of the game. Each round is harder than the previous one. Who will win, who will lose and what!

A he story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing. The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are surprisingly close to reality. However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer muzzle would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers.

Rainy afternoon in Athens, many sunny days in Turks & Caicos. An adventure in the Caribbean. A rainy afternoon, he meets a strange unknown girl. The girl is giving him a kind of "bioenergy" and disappears. Messages suddenly appear in his mind and prompt him to go to the islands of Turks & Caicos, in the Caribbean. He abandons everything and makes a fresh start. New identity, new adventures, new purpose in his life!!! https://homoastralis.org/rainy-afternoon-en.htm