Tales From Dickens
Hallie Erminie Rives
66 chapters · 10 h 39 min · English
Read by Highlandoaks, Annapurna, Lee Smalley, Lynne T, Arielle Lipshaw, ashleighjane and others
Literary Fiction
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The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dickens stories? The author of this marvelous book, Rives Ermine, a highly successful author in her own right, simply wanted to retell the basic elements of some of Dickens best beloved novels and story lines. Now is your chance to revisit these stories and revive the memories of great reads. Of it you haven't gotten around to some of these classics, this would be a marvelous chance to listen to what they are about so you can enjoy them even more in the original later. The synopsis of each book by Dickens, broken into 3 or 4 sections, is read by a single LibriVox reader for a more consistent and understandable flow. As an added treat, the author's essay on Charles Dickens has been added as the last section of this audiobook. (summary by Phil Chenevert)
Chapters
1 The Old Curiosity Shop - Little Nell 9 min 2 The Old Curiosity Shop - The Wanderers 13 min 3 The Old Curiosity Shop - The Search 15 min 4 Oliver Twist - How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There 15 min 5 Oliver Twist - Oliver's Adventures 13 min 6 Oliver Twist - How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver in the End 16 min 7 Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby's Boyhood 8 min 8 Barnaby Rudge - The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was 9 min 9 Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Gets Into Trouble 9 min 10 Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Prospers at Last 11 min 11 David Copperfield - David's Early Ups and Downs 15 min 12 David Copperfield - Little Em'ly 8 min 13 David Copperfield - David and His Child-Wife 7 min 14 David Copperfield - David Finds All Well at Last 8 min 15 Great Expectations - Pip and the Convict 10 min 16 Great Expectations - The Queer Miss Havisham 12 min 17 Great Expectations - Pip Discovers His Benefactor 9 min 18 Great Expectations - Pip Comes to Himself 10 min 19 Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall 8 min 20 Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Becomes an Actor 6 min 21 Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue 6 min 22 Nicholas Nickleby - What Happened to Everybody 7 min 23 Dombey and Son - Little Paul 14 min 24 Dombey and Son - How Florence Lost Her Father 13 min 25 Dombey and Son - How Florence Reached a Refuge 6 min 26 Dombey and Son - How Florence Found Her Father at Last 10 min 27 The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Begin Their Adventures. They Meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and Winkle Is Involved in a Duel 8 min 28 The Pickwick Papers - Tupman Has a Love-Affair With a Spinster, and the Pickwickians Find Out the Real Character of Jingle 11 min 29 The Pickwick Papers - Mr. Pickwick Has an Interesting Scene With Mrs. Bardell, His Housekeeper. Further Pursuit of Jingle Leads to an Adventure at a Young Ladies' Boarding School 10 min 30 The Pickwick Papers - Sam Weller Meets His Father, and the Pursuit of Jingle Is Continued. Mr. Pickwick Makes a Strange Call on a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow Curl Papers 6 min 31 The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Find Themselves in the Grasp of the Law. The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a Christmas Merrymaking 8 min 32 The Pickwick Papers - The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick. Sergeant Buzfuz's Speech and an Unexpected Verdict 8 min 33 The Pickwick Papers - Winkle Has an Exciting Adventure With Mr. Dowler, and With the Aid of Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller Discovers the Whereabouts of Miss Arabella Allen 11 min 34 The Pickwick Papers - Mr. Pickwick's Experiences in the Debtors' Prison, Where He Finds an Old Enemy and Heaps Coals of Fire on the Head of Mrs. Bardell 8 min 35 The Pickwick Papers - Snodgrass Gets Into Difficulties, But Wins His Lady-Love. The Adventures of the Pickwickians Come to an End 8 min 36 Little Dorritt - How Arthur Came Home from China 8 min 37 Little Dorritt - The Child of the Marshalsea 12 min 38 Little Dorritt - What Riches Brought to the Dorrits 8 min 39 Little Dorritt - What Happened to Arthur Clennam 7 min 40 Little Dorritt - "All's Well That Ends Well" 11 min 41 Martin Chuzzlewit - How Martin Left England 11 min 42 Martin Chuzzlewit - Pecksniff and Old Chuzzlewit 8 min 43 Martin Chuzzlewit - Jonas Gets Rid of an Enemy 8 min 44 Martin Chuzzlewit - What Came of Martin's Trip to America 7 min 45 Martin Chuzzlewit - Old Chuzzlewit's Plot Succeeds 6 min 46 Our Mutual Friend - What Happened to John Harmon 10 min 47 Our Mutual Friend - Lizzie Hexam and the Dolls' Dressmaker 7 min 48 Our Mutual Friend - The Rise and Fall of Silas Wegg 7 min 49 Our Mutual Friend - Bella and the Golden Dustman 7 min 50 Our Mutual Friend - The End of the Story 8 min 51 A Tale of Two Cities - How Lucie Found a Father 15 min 52 A Tale of Two Cities - Darnay Caught in the Net 13 min 53 A Tale of Two Cities - Sydney Carton's Sacrifice 10 min 54 Bleak House - The Court of Chancery 10 min 55 Bleak House - Lady Dedlock's Secret 12 min 56 Bleak House - Little Joe Plays a Part 10 min 57 Bleak House - Esther Becomes the Mistress of Bleak House 8 min 58 Hard Times - Mr. Gradgrind and His "System" 12 min 59 Hard Times - The Robbery of Bounderby's Bank 11 min 60 Hard Times - Harthouse's Plan Fails 9 min 61 Hard Times - Stephen's Return 10 min 62 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - John Jasper 5 min 63 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Coming of Neville Landless 7 min 64 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Choirmaster's Dinner 8 min 65 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Jasper Shows His Teeth 9 min 66 Charles Dickens 22 min
