Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England, is one of the most beloved novelists of the Victorian era. His early life was marked by hardship; his family faced financial struggles that led to his brief stint in a factory. These experiences shaped his keen observations of society, which he later infused into his rich, vibrant characters and intricate plots. Dickens had a remarkable ability to weave social commentary into his stories, often highlighting the struggles of the poor and the injustices of his time, making his works both entertaining and thought-provoking.
Throughout his prolific career, Dickens penned timeless classics such as "A Christmas Carol," "Great Expectations," and "Oliver Twist," each filled with memorable characters and poignant lessons. His storytelling captures the essence of human experience, from joy to sorrow, and resonates with readers even today. As you explore his works in this app, you'll find a world where wit meets compassion, and you'll be drawn into the lives of characters that feel as real as your own. Happy listening!
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…
Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…
A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …
Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…
A Tale of Two Cities (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…
A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficul…
David Copperfield (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens …
Bleak House (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disput…
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
A Christmas Carol (version 02)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality ta…
Bleak House
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Charles Dickens
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to…
Oliver Twist (version 4)
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a…
Great Expectations (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…
Little Dorrit (Version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold an…
A Christmas Carol (version 04)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
Hard Times
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Charles Dickens
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Tr…
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the …
Three Ghost Stories
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Charles Dickens
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm.…
The Pickwick Papers
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Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publicat…
Great Expectations (Version 3)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…
Dombey and Son
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848…
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…
Oliver Twist (version 6)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …
A House to Let
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Barnaby Rudge (version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
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Charles Dickens
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
A Christmas Carol (version 05)
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Charles Dickens
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…
The Seven Poor Travellers
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…
A Christmas Carol (version 06)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Charles Dickens
The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his l…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and readers h…
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…
The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Pl…
The Chimes
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…
Little Dorrit
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Charles Dickens
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her ent…
Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts…
A Tale of Two Cities (version 4)
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Charles Dickens
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone
No Thoroughfare
Read by Alan Chant
Charles Dickens
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…
A Child's History of England
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Charles Dickens
A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in th…
Bleak House (version 4)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewi…
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …
Our Mutual Friend
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Charles Dickens
Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …
The Battle of Life
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Charles Dickens
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this…
Oliver Twist (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The…
The Pickwick Papers (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that i…
Hard Times (version 3), Locked Out and On Strike
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Dickens
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical ca…
The Cricket on the Hearth
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Charles Dickens
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious …
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading)
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Charles Dickens
When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
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Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
Christmas Books
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Charles Dickens
From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote a series of five novellas to be published at Christmas. Most people are familiar with the first, &…
Pictures from Italy
Read by Anthony Ogus
Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
Mudfog and Other Sketches
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Charles Dickens
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …
The Strange Gentleman
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Charles Dickens
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016
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E. Nesbitt and Charles Dickens
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Oliver Twist (version 3)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…
Barnaby Rudge
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…
A Christmas Carol (Version 03)
Read by Jeff Robinson
Charles Dickens
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to cha…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
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Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella …
A Christmas Carol (version 07)
Read by Cori Samuel
Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Charles Dickens
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
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Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'
Read by David Wales
Charles Dickens
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)
Read by Richard Reiman
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Read by James E. Carson
Charles Dickens
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…
David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America
Read by Michael Armenta
Charles Dickens
"This short collection of 6 selected scenes from "David Copperfield" were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during hi…
American Notes for General Circulation
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Charles Dickens
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…
Dombey and Son (version 3)
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
To Paul Dombey, the business is everything, and he must have a son who will learn the business and eventually inherit it. Will his newborn, …
A Christmas Carol (Version 09)
Read by Greg Giordano
Charles Dickens
"A Christmas Carol" has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' …
Nicholas Nickleby (Version 4)
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Charles Dickens
After the death of his father, Nicholas must provide for his mother and sister. His wealthy uncle provides him with employment at a boys' s…
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Nell and her elderly grandfather must flee from home after losing their shop and home to the evil Mr. Quilp. Her good-for-nothing brother, c…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4
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Charles Dickens
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…
Oliver Twist (version 7)
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Charles Dickens
Orphan boy Oliver is forced into child labor at an early age, and after a simple plea for more food, finds himself alone in the streets of L…
A Christmas Carol - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings
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Charles Dickens
This very special abridged version was written and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1862. Without the more terrifyin…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3
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Charles Dickens
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…
Dombey and Son (version 2)
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company…
David Copperfield (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
The Village Coquettes
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Charles Dickens
Before he started writing novels, Charles Dickens tried his hand at theater. The Village Coquettes is a two act musical. Sadly the music was…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
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Charles Dickens
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
Master Humphrey's Clock
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Charles Dickens
Between April of 1840 and December of the following year, Charles Dickens published Master Humphrey's Clock - a weekly periodical that prese…
A Christmas Carol (Version 11)
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley an…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5
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Charles Dickens
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…
Some Short Christmas Stories
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
Here are some classic, short Christmas stories from Charles Dickens, who, one may easily argue, was the greatest Christmas storyteller to da…
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter
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Charles Dickens
These re-tellings of well known stories originally written by Charles Dickens are all focused on the children in them. Their humor and path…
A Budget of Christmas Tales
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Various and Charles Dickens
This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent f…
American Notes (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens records his impressions of America during his 1842 journey. - Summary by Brad "Hamlet" Filippone
A Christmas Carol (version 10)
Read by W. Blaine Dowler
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four spirits on Christmas Eve, and it changes his life forever. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler
Barnaby Rudge (version 3)
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Che…
Martin Chuzzlewit (Version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, espec…
A Christmas Carol (Version 14)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob …
Short Poetry Collection 120
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Charles Dickens and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.
Sketches by Boz, version 2
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12)
Read by Geoffrey Venin
Charles Dickens
Marley was dead, to begin with...until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning. Will Scrooge b…
A Christmas Carol (Version 13)
Read by helensears
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is a covetous, miserable old man who lives his life apart from his fellow man and is incapable of showing love or understan…
A Christmas Carol (Quicksilver Radio Theater, 1995)
Charles Dickens
A radio adaptation of Charles Dickens' seasonal classic, adapted by Craig Wichman and performed by the Quicksilver Radio Theater. Narrator/J…
Mugby Junction
Read by Bryn Roberts
Charles Dickens, Variousandcharles Dickens and Various And Charles Dickens
Originally published in 1866 in the Christmas edition of Dickens's magazine, "All the Year Round.", "Mugby Junction" off…
Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (version 4)
Read by Mark Leder
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' fifth published novel is set in the village of Cligwell. Romances are thwarted. A ghost is spotted. A raven speaks. A m…
Speeches: Literary and Social
Read by Bryn Roberts
Charles Dickens
Speeches: Literary and Social is a collection of speeches given by Charles Dickens in various settings, including banquets, public gathering…
What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, and other stories
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Charles Dickens
A delightful collection of stories about Christmas and what it is by literary geniuses such as Dickens, Martineau, and Buckley. - Summary b…