Charles Dickens

A heartless convict. The devil's fairy godmother. A beautiful girl with eyes of stone. A spectral benefactor.These and many others shape the fortunes of young Pip, as he is transformed from a blacksmith's apprentice to a young gentleman with Great...

The eighth novel in Naxos AudioBooks’ series of the great works of Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist is Dickens’ second novel. Coming shortly after The Pickwick Papers it is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of...

Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? His death affects members of...

In Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens created one of his most penetrating satires on the weaknesses of government in the Victorian era. He chose Marshalsea debtors’ prison as the setting, where his own father had been imprisoned. The story revolves around...

Bleak House Duration - 11h 13m. Author - Charles Dickens. Narrator - Sean Barrett. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023.

Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who lived during the 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and is known for his vivid portrayals of the social and economic conditions of the time. His...

Charles Dickens created the story A Christmas Carol known the world over as the story that helped create the modern Christmas season and in doing so gave the world one of the most recognized characters in literature, the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge....

Experience the timeless magic of the holiday season with "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, now available as a heartwarming audiobook. In this beloved classic, listeners will be transported to the snowy streets of Victorian London, where they'll...

A master of language, moral lessons, and capturing the beauty of the everyday, Charles Dickens also brings elements of magic and wonder to this tale along with, of course, the meaning and joy of the Christmas season. Expecting to be able to bask in...

A mysterious boatman on the Thames, a drowned heir, a dustman and his wife, and a host of other Dickens characters populate this novel of relationships between the classes, money, greed and love. The forty-eight characters are presented with...

The Pickwick Papers, Dickens’s first novel, is a delightful romp through the pre-Reform Bill England of 1827. Samuel Pickwick and the rest of the Pickwickians are some of the most memorable of all Dickens’s creations, and it is a joy to hear of their...

Dombey and Son is vintage Dickens and explores the classic themes of betrayal, cruelty and deceit. The novel follows the fortunes of Dombey, a businessman par excellence, who craves a son to inherit his enterprises. His family, and especially his...

De laatste door Charles Dickens voltooide roman (geschreven in 1864 - 1865). John Harmon, de zoon van een rijke vuilnisman, krijgt de erfenis van zijn overleden vader als hij met de op geld beluste Bella Wilfer trouwt. Een roman over geld, wat geld...

One of Dickens’s earlier novels, dating from 1839, Nicholas Nickleby charts the fortunes of an honourable young man who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life they...

De trotse Dombey, eigenaar van het handelskantoor 'Dombey en zoon', heeft zich als doel in zijn leven gesteld zich in zijn bedrijf te laten opvolgen door zijn zoon. Pas nadat hij zijn zoon, zijn geld, zijn vrouw, zijn tweede vrouw en zijn bedrijf is...

В центре повествования глава знаменитой торговой фирмы мистер Домби, человек исключительно надменный, с черствым сердцем и холодной душой. Исполненный сознанием своего превосходства, он со всем не замечает своей дочери Флоренс, ибо она не представляет...

David Copperfield is een roman van Charles Dickens uit 1850. Zoals in vroeger eeuwen tamelijk gebruikelijk was, had het boek in werkelijkheid een lange titel: "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who lived during the 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and is known for his vivid portrayals of the social and economic conditions of the time. His...

Queen Victoria... and Prince Albert were married in 1840. Dickens uses this event as an ingenious ploy to salute and promote domestic felicity, advising young ladies upon several examples of the different types of male available as partners.There...

Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of relatives that he despises, all hoping to...

De familie Dorrit verblijft door schulden belast meer dan 20 jaar in de schuldengevangenis de Marshalsea in Londen. Zullen zij ontlast worden van hun schulden? Zullen de heldin en de ridder op het witte paard met elkaar trouwen in dit inktzwarte...

La casa de antigüedades (a veces, El almacén de antigüedades, El pequeño gabinete de antigüedades, etc.), en inglés The Old Curiosity Shop, es una novela del escritor inglés Charles Dickens, publicada por entregas entre 1840 y 1841. La novela trata...

Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre. His stories of madness, murder and revenge, often imbued with a sympathetic moral undertone, have continued to thrill and chill readers ever since they were written. Here then are 15 tales that display the...

A heartless convict. The devil's fairy godmother. A beautiful girl with eyes of stone. A spectral benefactor.These and many others shape the fortunes of young Pip, as he is transformed from a blacksmith's apprentice to a young gentleman with Great...

The eighth novel in Naxos AudioBooks’ series of the great works of Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist is Dickens’ second novel. Coming shortly after The Pickwick Papers it is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of...

In Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens created one of his most penetrating satires on the weaknesses of government in the Victorian era. He chose Marshalsea debtors’ prison as the setting, where his own father had been imprisoned. The story revolves around...

Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? His death affects members of...

Bleak House Duration - 11h 13m. Author - Charles Dickens. Narrator - Sean Barrett. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023.

Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who lived during the 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and is known for his vivid portrayals of the social and economic conditions of the time. His...

Charles Dickens created the story A Christmas Carol known the world over as the story that helped create the modern Christmas season and in doing so gave the world one of the most recognized characters in literature, the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge....

Experience the timeless magic of the holiday season with "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, now available as a heartwarming audiobook. In this beloved classic, listeners will be transported to the snowy streets of Victorian London, where they'll...