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A House to Let

by Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 1865), Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 – 1864).

A House to Let is a novella originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens’ Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens.

The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous “House to Let”) opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)

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Total running time: 4:12:04
Read by Ruth Golding

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• 1 – Chapter 1 – Over the Way by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins – 00:37:31
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• 2 – Chapter 2 – The Manchester Marriage Part 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens – 00:31:54
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• 3 – Chapter 2 – The Manchester Marriage Part 2 by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens – 00:51:43
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• 4 – Chapter 3 – Going into Society by Charles Dickens – 00:38:14
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• 5 – Chapter 4 – Three Evenings in the House by Adelaide Anne Procter, Charles Dickens – 00:21:17
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• 6 – Chapter 5 – Trottle’s Report by Wilkie Collins – 00:39:15
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• 7 – Chapter 6 – Let at Last by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins – 00:32:10
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Cataloged on January 31, 2009