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Three Short Stories
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is undoubtedly his most famous story about the holiday. But this audiobook collects three other novellas that he wrote for Christmas.
The first one, The Cricket on the Hearth, concerns a wealthy miser named Tackleton who nearly destroys two families before he’s redeemed by the holiday spirit. The Battle of Life concerns the romantic heartbreaks of two sisters in an English village, but ends happily with a final surprise. And in The Haunted Man, a chemistry teacher meets a ghost who promises to rid him of all his unhappy memories. He takes up the offer without understanding the consequences.
In performances laced with tenderness and feeling, Donada Peters pays homage to the yuletide feeling in these Christmas classics.
Publisher's summary
"The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man" were written for the Christmas market, and all lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home. But there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality: their eager anticipation by a whole nation tells us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power.
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By: Charles Dickens
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The Old Curiosity Shop
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 388
In true Dickensian fashion, The Old Curiosity Shop offers a humorous yet devastating depiction of both the most honourable and most corrupt members of 19th-century English society. Hailed by Queen Victoria as being ‘interesting and cleverly written', The Old Curiosity Shop introduces listeners to the uniquely colourful characters of Nell Trent, her young friend, Kit, her doting grandfather and the evil moneylender to whom they all fall prey, Daniel Quilp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narration
- By PoppyZu on 03-22-19
By: Charles Dickens
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Hard Times
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and excellent performance
- By DFK on 07-08-19
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Great Classic Ghost Stories
- Sixteen Unabridged Classics
- By: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: John Lee, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 303
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4 out of 5 stars 274
This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. Includes: ”The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce, ”The Empty House" by Algernon Blackwood, ”The Consequences" by Willa Cather, ”How It Happened" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ”A Ghost" by Guy De Maupassant, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some stories are great others not so much.
- By Femke on 11-29-12
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories
- By: Washington Irving
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
You are probably familiar with the popularized versions of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you ever heard the original, unabridged stories by Washington Irving? The skillfully written and colorful original tales have much more meaning and depth. In Rip Van Winkle Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes then happening in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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good storys bad reader
- By Kindle Customer on 12-02-10
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Oliver Twist
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,107
When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration
- By victor j chriest on 12-27-20
By: Charles Dickens
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The Essential Dickens Christmas
- A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Tim Bruce, Greg Wagland, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas in Five Staves when he was 31. Now with numerous adaptations for film, television, radio, stage - and indeed in audio - it has become an essential part of Christmas for many. Raconteurs Audio has created this collection to include Dickens’ two Christmas novellas, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, as well as some of his lesser known short stories with a Christmas theme.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liam Gerard Perfect for ACC!
- By Cousin Spacewarp on 12-27-23
By: Charles Dickens
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The Invisible Woman
- The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87
Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted 13 years and destroyed Dickens's marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- By Jean on 01-21-13
By: Claire Tomalin
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Lucinda Hawksley
- Narrated by: Billy Howle, Lucinda Hawksley
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Audible presents an original production of the aptly named The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished novel. Following his untimely death at the age of 58, Dickens managed to publish only six of the 12 planned instalments of the story. Though it has gone on to be one of his more popular titles and the source of inspiration for various television, stage and theatre adaptations, no one knows exactly how Dickens planned to end the mystery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Edwin Drood
- By Deedra on 01-29-24
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, William Boyd - introduction
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, William Boyd - introduction
- Length: 41 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 127
Deeply distressed at thought of his singularly money-minded family circling around his inevitable death bed, when Old Martin Chuzzlewit comes across a young and kindly orphan girl, he immediately decides to take her into his employment. Offering her a comfortable living in exchange for her care and protection, Martin rests easy in the knowledge that her comfort will last only as long as he does; upon his death, Mary the orphan will find herself on the cold and dirty streets from whence she came.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Least enjoyable Dickens' books I've ever read or listened to.
- By Brain on 12-06-18
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
- Length: 32 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,636
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,442
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,436
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed: this is not a never-ending story
- By M. Leavell on 01-23-16
By: George Eliot
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- Theblackersheep
- 11-24-12
Recording not the best
The stories are brilliant, the narration is excellent, but the recording is poor. You can hear other voices and noise in the background which is disturbing and takes away from the book. It's a shame because otherwise it would merit 5 stars.
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- daniel
- 12-06-21
great stories but audio is aweful!
these are three great dickens stories absolutely ruined by the worst audio i have heard. a good deal of whitenoise almost as audible as the sound makes it unlistenable!
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