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Charles Dickens' absolutely wonderful celebration of holiday spirit and Christmas cheer presents a grand glimpse of Christmas dinner and the jovial characters that reside within every family, everywhere.

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family. Includes F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Luckless Santa Claus", "A Christmas Dinner" by Charles Dickens, O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi", the hilarious "Reginald on Christmas Presents" by Saki (H.H. Munro), and a tender scene exerpted from Little Women.

Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world's great mystery & classic horror authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-Hiker's Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London's Burning, Othello).

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production - enhanced with music and sound effects - of perhaps the most beloved Christmas book of all time, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It tells the story of the miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge, who is given one, final chance at redemption on Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is guided by three Spirits - of Christmas Past, Present and Future - who show the old miser the error of his ways.

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season.

Hard Times is set in and around Coketown, a fictitious, Victorian mill town in the North of England. A town of red brick, machinery, and tall chimneys. A town blackened by soot, shrouded in mist, and choked by smoke. The working men and women of Coketown, referred to generally as "Hands" as if they were merely extensions of the machinery they operate, and not individuals with loves and likes, memories and inclinations, souls to weary and souls to hope.

Bekannt als die Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens, ein Hörerlebnis der Extraklasse, gelesen und interpretiert von dem bekannten und erfolgreichen Synchronregisseur und -sprecher Lutz Riedel...

Dans l'Angleterre victorienne, Oliver Twist, jeune orphelin angélique, est recueilli par l'assistance ; il est placé chez M. et Mme Sowerberry, fabricant de cercueils et croque-mort de son état. Là, il ne connaît que privations et mauvais traitements. Oliver endure tout, jusqu'au jour où une provocation d'un apprenti le pousse à se battre puis à s'enfuir vers Londres.

Charles Dickens est un romancier de proximité : il se met dans la peau de chacun de ses lecteurs-personnages, partage tellement leur vie qu'il parle de lui en parlant d'eux. Il veut se reconnaître dans ses personnages comme il veut que les classes moyennes qu'il connaît et décrit se reconnaissent en eux. Sa fille raconte qu'un jour, admise dans le bureau de son père, alors qu'il écrivait, à maintes reprises, elle le vit se lever précipitamment de sa table de travail pour aller grimacer devant une glace en marmonnant des paroles incompréhensibles pour revenir écrire aussitôt ce qu'il venait de voir de lui-même. Ses personnages, c'est lui.

Etot znamenityy roman napisan vo vremya polnogo rascveta tvorcheskih sil Dikkensa i soedinyaet v sebe cherty svoystvennye kak rannemu periodu tvorchestva, proniknutogo neistoshchimym yumorom, dohodyashchim do bezuderzhnogo groteska, tak i pozdney pore ego raboty, v kotoroy usilivaetsya patetika i ozabochennost' obshchestvennymi problemami. V centre povestvovaniya glava znamenitoy torgovoy firmy mister Dombi, chelovek isklyuchitel'no nadmennyy, s cherstvym serdcem i holodnoy dushoy. Ispolnennyy soznaniem svoego prevoskhodstva, on so vsem ne zamechaet svoey docheri Florens, ibo ona ne predstavlyaet interesa dlya ego dela.

Das Hörspiel "David Copperfield" in der Produktion des WDRs von 1957 gehört zu den großen, abendfüllenden Produktionen aus der goldenen Ära des Radios...

"A Tale of Two Cities" is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution.

"A Christmas Carol" is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain when it was experiencing a nostalgic interest in its forgotten Christmas traditions.

Denna komiska berättelse om ett gäng äldre herrars äventyr på den engelska landsbygden på 1820-talet blev en exempellös framgång när den först utkom i följetongsform åren 1836-37. Boken gjorde Charles Dickens genast ett namn i hela den engelskspråkiga världen. Med den fryntlige herr Pickwick som mittpunkt råkar de ständigt i dråpliga situationer var de än hamnar men räddas gång efter annan av sin betjänt, den påhittiga och kvicktänkta Sam Weller.

"Oliver Twist", also known as "The Parish Boy's Progress", is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.

The tale is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a furious miser. On Christmas Eve, seven years after his business partners' death...

Herrliche Gänsehaut garantieren gruselige Geschichten von einem Gespensterschiff mit unheimlicher Besatzung...

For many National Public Radio listeners, it wouldn't be Christmas without hearing Jonathan Winters perform A Christmas Carol. The master comedian brilliantly re-creates Dickens' cast of colorful characters: Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley's spirit, and the three Christmas ghosts, Past, Present, and Future. His distinctive and charming reading uses a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations.

Orson Welles' dramatic anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air, infamous for its Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds, found a sponsor and became Campbell Playhouse in December 1938. The program continued to feature the charismatic and fiery Welles as both a host and an actor. The great Lionel Barrymore portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in Campbell Playhouse's annual performance of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Oliver Twist er Dickens’ klassiske fortælling om den fattige og forældreløse dreng Oliver, der vokser op under den barske britiske fattigdomsforsorg på et børnehjem, hvor han sammen med de andre børn sulter og bliver udsat for en brutal behandling. Til sidst beslutter Oliver sig for at stikke af og ender i London, hvor han falder i kløerne på en kriminel bande, der ledes af skurken Fagin.