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Tales From Dickens

Hallie Erminie Rives (1874 - 1956)

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)

Genre(s): Literary Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Old Curiosity Shop - Little Nell	Highlandoaks	00:08:43
Play 02	The Old Curiosity Shop - The Wanderers	Highlandoaks	00:12:42
Play 03	The Old Curiosity Shop - The Search	Highlandoaks	00:14:38
Play 04	Oliver Twist - How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There	Annapurna	00:15:29
Play 05	Oliver Twist - Oliver's Adventures	Annapurna	00:12:55
Play 06	Oliver Twist - How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver in the End	Annapurna	00:15:57
Play 07	Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby's Boyhood	Lee Smalley	00:08:17
Play 08	Barnaby Rudge - The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was	Lee Smalley	00:08:49
Play 09	Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Gets Into Trouble	Lee Smalley	00:09:02
Play 10	Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Prospers at Last	Lee Smalley	00:10:38
Play 11	David Copperfield - David's Early Ups and Downs	Lynne T	00:15:23
Play 12	David Copperfield - Little Em'ly	Lynne T	00:07:58
Play 13	David Copperfield - David and His Child-Wife	Lynne T	00:06:50
Play 14	David Copperfield - David Finds All Well at Last	Lynne T	00:08:16
Play 15	Great Expectations - Pip and the Convict	Lee Smalley	00:10:23
Play 16	Great Expectations - The Queer Miss Havisham	Lee Smalley	00:12:23
Play 17	Great Expectations - Pip Discovers His Benefactor	Lee Smalley	00:08:36
Play 18	Great Expectations - Pip Comes to Himself	Lee Smalley	00:09:30
Play 19	Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall	Arielle Lipshaw	00:08:06
Play 20	Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Becomes an Actor	Arielle Lipshaw	00:06:06
Play 21	Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue	Arielle Lipshaw	00:05:30
Play 22	Nicholas Nickleby - What Happened to Everybody	Arielle Lipshaw	00:07:15
Play 23	Dombey and Son - Little Paul	ashleighjane	00:13:51
Play 24	Dombey and Son - How Florence Lost Her Father	ashleighjane	00:12:36
Play 25	Dombey and Son - How Florence Reached a Refuge	ashleighjane	00:05:52
Play 26	Dombey and Son - How Florence Found Her Father at Last	ashleighjane	00:09:44
Play 27	The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Begin Their Adventures. They Meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and Winkle Is Involved in a Duel	Ruth Golding	00:08:18
Play 28	The Pickwick Papers - Tupman Has a Love-Affair With a Spinster, and the Pickwickians Find Out the Real Character of Jingle	Ruth Golding	00:11:27
Play 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	Ruth Golding	00:10:16
Play 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	Ruth Golding	00:06:13
Play 31	The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Find Themselves in the Grasp of the Law. The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a Christmas Merrymaking	Ruth Golding	00:07:59
Play 32	The Pickwick Papers - The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick. Sergeant Buzfuz's Speech and an Unexpected Verdict	Ruth Golding	00:08:18
Play 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	Ruth Golding	00:10:33
Play 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	Ruth Golding	00:07:42
Play 35	The Pickwick Papers - Snodgrass Gets Into Difficulties, But Wins His Lady-Love. The Adventures of the Pickwickians Come to an End	Ruth Golding	00:08:08
Play 36	Little Dorritt - How Arthur Came Home from China	Lee Smalley	00:07:48
Play 37	Little Dorritt - The Child of the Marshalsea	Lee Smalley	00:11:38
Play 38	Little Dorritt - What Riches Brought to the Dorrits	Lee Smalley	00:07:42
Play 39	Little Dorritt - What Happened to Arthur Clennam	Lee Smalley	00:06:51
Play 40	Little Dorritt - "All's Well That Ends Well"	Lee Smalley	00:10:33
Play 41	Martin Chuzzlewit - How Martin Left England	Patrick Wells	00:10:49
Play 42	Martin Chuzzlewit - Pecksniff and Old Chuzzlewit	Patrick Wells	00:07:57
Play 43	Martin Chuzzlewit - Jonas Gets Rid of an Enemy	Patrick Wells	00:07:35
Play 44	Martin Chuzzlewit - What Came of Martin's Trip to America	Patrick Wells	00:06:45
Play 45	Martin Chuzzlewit - Old Chuzzlewit's Plot Succeeds	Patrick Wells	00:06:00
Play 46	Our Mutual Friend - What Happened to John Harmon	Maria Therese	00:10:01
Play 47	Our Mutual Friend - Lizzie Hexam and the Dolls' Dressmaker	Maria Therese	00:06:41
Play 48	Our Mutual Friend - The Rise and Fall of Silas Wegg	Maria Therese	00:06:57
Play 49	Our Mutual Friend - Bella and the Golden Dustman	Maria Therese	00:07:27
Play 50	Our Mutual Friend - The End of the Story	Maria Therese	00:08:15
Play 51	A Tale of Two Cities - How Lucie Found a Father	JaySands	00:14:54
Play 52	A Tale of Two Cities - Darnay Caught in the Net	JaySands	00:12:33
Play 53	A Tale of Two Cities - Sydney Carton's Sacrifice	JaySands	00:10:08
Play 54	Bleak House - The Court of Chancery	Libby Gohn	00:10:14
Play 55	Bleak House - Lady Dedlock's Secret	Libby Gohn	00:12:19
Play 56	Bleak House - Little Joe Plays a Part	Libby Gohn	00:10:23
Play 57	Bleak House - Esther Becomes the Mistress of Bleak House	Libby Gohn	00:08:25
Play 58	Hard Times - Mr. Gradgrind and His "System"	Julia Wells	00:12:10
Play 59	Hard Times - The Robbery of Bounderby's Bank	Julia Wells	00:10:38
Play 60	Hard Times - Harthouse's Plan Fails	Julia Wells	00:08:33
Play 61	Hard Times - Stephen's Return	Julia Wells	00:09:45
Play 62	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - John Jasper	Libby Gohn	00:05:29
Play 63	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Coming of Neville Landless	Libby Gohn	00:07:18
Play 64	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Choirmaster's Dinner	Libby Gohn	00:07:46
Play 65	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Jasper Shows His Teeth	Libby Gohn	00:08:58
Play 66	Charles Dickens	Samantha Miles	00:21:52

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