Charles Dickens Audio Books Download
In the 19th century, when Britain was the major economic and political power of the world, Charles Dickens highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged population at the heart of British empire. Through his journalistic works and writings he campaigned on specific issues like i.e sanitation and the workhouse, but his fiction probably did even much more in changing public opinion about the class inequalities.
Charles Dickens often showed the exploitation and bitter repression of the poor population and condemned public officials and institutions that not only allowed such abuses to exist, but flourished as a result. In the Charles Dickens audiobooks listed below, you will find many examples of such exploitation and abuse:
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- Vote for Your Favorite Charles Dickens AudioBook
- Charles Dickens Quotes
- Charles Dickens Books - Charles Dickens Printed Books
- Charles Dickens Biography - Charles Dickens Bio
- What's in the Press about Charles Dickens today:
- Novels written by Charles Dickens
- How should we rate Charles Dickens today? Was he really that great?
- Dickens Christmas Carol - Which Version Do You like Best?
- Do you like this lens about Charles Dickens?
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Character
- Wackford Squeers - Charles Dickens Character
- Great Expectations - Novel by Charles Dickens
- Miss Havisham - Charles Dickens Character
- Samuel Pickwick - Charles Dickens Character
- Abel Magwitch - Charles Dickens Character
- Wilkins Micawber - Charles Dickens Character
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Character
- Charles Darnay - Charles Dickens Character
- Fagin - Charles Dickens Character
- Ebenezer Scrooge - Charles Dickens Character
Vote for Your Favorite Charles Dickens AudioBook
List of Charles Dickens Audio Books - Charles Dickens Audiobooks
These audiobooks are all online and you can listen to a short (about 5 mins) sound sample if you like. The narrators do a tremendous job reading these classic Charles Dickens novels and every single one is a masterpiece at its own right:
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Fiction Audio Books / Classic Fiction
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Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Fiction Audio Books / Classic Fiction
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Chimes - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Radio Show Audios / Audio Theater
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Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Arts & Drama on Audio / Classic Literature Audios
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Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Fiction Audio Books / Classic Fiction
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Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Radio Show Audios / Audio Theater
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Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Fiction Audio Books / Classic Fiction
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Fiction Audio Books / Classic Fiction
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Hard Times - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Arts & Drama on Audio / Classic Literature Audios
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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Audiobook
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Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens - Classic Drama: The Pickwick Papers - Audiobook
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Charles Dickens - The Seven Poor Travellers - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - Audio Book
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Charles Dickens Quotes
- Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens on Character:
- Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens on Freedom:
- I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles dickens on Age:
- Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens Books - Charles Dickens Printed Books
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
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A Christmas Carol: 1914 Reprint (2008 Vintage Edition)
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Charles Dickens Biography - Charles Dickens Bio
Charles Dickens Timeline - Charles Dickens Life
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (; 7 February 1812-9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print."What the Dickens?", by Simon Swift. The Guardian, Wednesday 18 April 2007. "Dickens's books have never gone out of print.""Victorian squalor and hi-tech gadgetry: Dickens World to open in England", Bloomberg News, 23 May 2007.
Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a popular way of publishing fiction at the time. Other writers would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, but Dickens often wrote his in parts, in the order they were meant to appear. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the public eager for the next installment.Stone, Harry. Dickens Working Notes for His Novels, Chicago, 1987
His work has been praised for its mastery of prose, and for its teeming gallery of unique personalities, by writers such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, though the same characteristics have prompted others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, to criticize him for sentimentality and implausibility.Henry James, "Our Mutual Friend", The Nation'', 21 December 1865.
What's in the Press about Charles Dickens today:
- The Goat-Faced Girl
- By Leah Marinsky Sharpe By Charles Dickens Illustrated by Brett Helquist Children ages 5-10 will relish Jane Marinsky's colorful, naïve-style paintings of ...
- Ghost of meals past: Dickens' toothpick sold in NY
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- By DIANA GOLOBAY In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the shrewd and penny-pinching money lender, Ebeneezer Scrooge, faces the reality of his life's ...
Novels written by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens Novels
Novels by Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)[34]
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841)
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841)
- The Christmas books:
-- A Christmas Carol (1843)
-- The Chimes (1844)
-- The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
-- The Battle of Life (1846)
-- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
- The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)
- Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)
- David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)
- Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)
- Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)
- Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)
- Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)
- Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed)
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890)
How should we rate Charles Dickens today? Was he really that great?
Charles Dickens has written a number of great novels that reflect the suffering and the social inegalities of the times he lived in very well. His studies and stories make history come to life!
Is Charles Dickens really one of the classic authors for the English language?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, he is!
groovyoldlady says:
We are a Dicken's family! LOVE him! However, his long, convoluted sentences and descriptions would never pass muster with today's get-to-the-point editors!
Posted January 12, 2009
No way!
Dickens Christmas Carol - Which Version Do You like Best?
Dickens Christmas Carol Audiobook - Dickens Christmas Carol MP3
A christmas Carol is most likely the best known book by Charles Dickens. Many different audio book editors have picked up this great novel and produced an audio with this touching story.
Vote for your favourite version here: The links lead to short, about 5 mins long sound samples for all the versions of a Christmas Carol. Take your pic and either vote them up or down. It will beinteresting to see which recording is the favorite!
These are the audio books editors that are participating in this contest:
- BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Blackstone Audio Inc.
- Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
- Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
- In Audio
- Simon & Schuster
- Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - In Audio
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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Blackstone Audio Inc
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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
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A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - MP3 Audio Book - Simon & Schuster
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David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from David Copperfield
Category: File - :Betsey_trotwood_by_phiz.jpg|thumb|right|David introduces himself to his aunt (Drawing by Hablot Knight Browne)
David Copperfield is the character after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, was named. The character is widely thought to be based on Dickens himself, using many elements of his own childhood.
David Copperfield is first introduced in the novel when he is born on a Friday in March in the early 19th century. The pet of his mother Clara Copperfield and faithful nursemaid Peggotty, David lives an idyllic life for the first few years of his life, even though he is fatherless - David Copperfield Sr. died 6 months before his son's birth. David's happy childhood is marred by the arrival of his stepfather, Edward Murdstone, and David suffers both physical and mental abuse from his new guardian.
David is soon sent off to Salem House school for biting Murdstone, and is consistently bullied until he befriends the popular James Steerforth. David performs well and is the resident storyteller, until he is forced to return home upon the death of his mother and unnamed baby half-brother. Because of his hate for the child, Murdstone and his sister decide to send David to work in the family bottling factory.
Life at the factory is miserable, even though David is befriended by the penniless Mr. Micawber, and he soon runs away to his Aunt Betsey Trotwood in Dover, who had previously disowned him for being born a boy and not a girl. Aunt Betsey adopts him (renaming him Trotwood, after herself) and sends him to Dr. Strong's private school in Canterbury, where David meets his best friend Agnes Wickfield, as well as the slimy Uriah Heep. Though David frequently falls into ill-fated love affairs which distract his good intentions, he distinguishes himself as top boy in the school and graduates with the intention of becoming a proctor.
The rest of the novel outlines David's struggles through life and his involvement in other plotlines, including his friendship and consequent disillusionment with James Steerforth; his assistance to the destroyed Peggotty family; his concern and suspicion for the Wickfield, Micawber, and Strong families as they are being harassed by Uriah Heep, and the development of his beginning writing career. As David juggles these problems he also must deal with his passionate, sincere, but highly impractical love for the innocent Dora Spenlow. After a humorously sentimental courtship, David marries Dora, who he loves despite her uselessness in household chores. She soon falls ill and dies, leaving David single and heartbroken. He travels throughout Europe, during which time he publishes his first (unnamed) novel with the help of old school-friend Thomas Traddles, and during this odyssey realizes he loves Agnes Wickfield, praying she loves him too. Upon his return he proposes to her, and the two quickly marry. They later move into a house in London along with their young children, which include at least three girls (Little Agnes, Dora, and Betsey Trotwood Copperfield) and at least two boys. They live a wealthy lifestyle on David's successful writing career.
Wackford Squeers - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from Nicholas Nickleby
:"Nickleby" redirects here. For other uses, see Nicholas Nickleby (disambiguation). For NCLB, see No Child Left Behind Act
Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a comic novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel.
The lengthy novel centres around the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks Nicholas will never amount to anything, plays the role of an antagonist.
Great Expectations - Novel by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in All the Year RoundHow Great Expectations from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.Great Expectations Critical Overview
Great Expectations is written in the style of bildungsroman, which follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity, usually starting from childhood and ending in the main character's eventual adulthood. Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life from his early childhood until adulthood and attempting to become a gentleman along the way. The novel can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
The main plot of Great Expectations takes place between Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old (and which happens to be the year of Dickens' birth), and the winter of 1840.Meckier, Jerome Dating the Action in Great Expectations: A New Chronology.
Miss Havisham - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from Great Expectations
Miss Havisham is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, who lives in her ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella, while she herself is described as looking like "the witch of the place."
Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-fifties. However, it is also indicated that her long life away from the sunlight has in itself aged her, and she is said to look like a cross between a waxwork and a skeleton, with moving eyes.
Samuel Pickwick - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from The Pickwick Papers
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. After the publication, the widow of the illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book."
Dickens was asked to contribute to the project as an up and coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published in the complete volume). Dickens increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after Seymour had committed suicide.
With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise.
Abel Magwitch - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from Great Expectations
In the story, Magwitch does not know where or when he was born. However, Pip estimates his age to be around 60 when they meet in about 1829, which would mean that he was born around 1769.
His first memory was stealing turnips in Essex for a living, having been abandoned by a tinker. Magwitch had been imprisoned off and on having never been given the chance to lead an honest life.
Prison visitors were told he was a hardened one; they pitied him "and they measured my head - they had better measured my stomach - and others on 'em giv me tracks what I couldn't read, and made me speeches what I couldn't unnerstand." Magwitch worked in every honest job he could find. He was taught to read and write by a deserting soldier and a "travelling giant".
Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations.
Wilkins Micawber - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from David Copperfield
:For other uses of Micawber, please see Micawber.
Category: Image - :Micawber.jpg|269px|right|As illustrated in a 1912 edition of the book
Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield. He was modelled on Dickens' father, John Dickens, who also ended up in a debtor's prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet the demands of his creditors.
His long-suffering wife, Emma, stands by him through thick and thin, despite the fact that her father, before his death, had to bail him out on many occasions and the fact his circumstances force her to pawn all her family heirlooms. The maxims she lives by are: "I will never desert Mr. Micawber!" and "Experientia does it (from Experientia docet, One learns by experience)".
He is hired as a subordinate by Uriah Heep, who believes Micawber to be as dishonest as himself due to his troubles with creditors. However, Micawber is honest, and, after working for Heep for a while, exposes him as a forger and a cheat. To make a fresh start, Micawber and his family emigrate to Australia alongside Daniel Peggotty and Little Em'ly. In Australia he is successful and becomes a magistrate as well as manager of the Port Middlebay Bank.
In Hablot Knight Browne's illustrations for the first edition, he is shown wearing knee-breeches, a top hat and a monocle.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from Oliver Twist
'''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress (commonly known as Oliver Twist''') (1838) is Charles Dickens second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London. The novel is one of Dickens's most well-known works, and has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations.
Charles Darnay - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from A Tale of Two Cities
A French aristocrat by birth, Darnay chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system. Darnay displays great virtue in his rejection of the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle, the Marquis Evremonde.
He exhibits an admirable honesty in his decision to reveal to Doctor Manette his true identity as a member of the infamous Evrémonde family. So, too, does he prove his courage in his decision to return to Paris at great personal risk to save the imprisoned Gabelle.
Charles is put on trial for treason against the Kingdom of Great Britain, but he is acquitted because of testimony by Lucie Manette, and help from Sydney Carton. Charles also falls in love with Lucie after the trial.
Charles Darnay or St. Evrémonde is a fictional character in the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Fagin - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from Oliver Twist
Fagin () is a fictional character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, referred to in the preface of the novel as a "receiver of stolen goods", but referred to more frequently within the actual story as the "merry old gentleman" or simply the "Jew".
Ebenezer Scrooge - Charles Dickens Character
Charles Dickens Character from A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight fisted and greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. A quote from the book reads "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice ..." His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy, traits displayed by Scrooge in the exaggerated manner for which Dickens is well-known. The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the Christmas holiday. Scrooge's catchphrase, "Bah, humbug!" is often used to express disgust with many of the modern Christmas traditions.
