The Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens
The Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens
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The Christmas Stories

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 4 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors’ prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by [ J o ]

[First read: 2010 or thereabouts. 4 stars. Second read: Christmas 2015. 4 stars. Third read: Christmas, 2016. 4 stars.] Ghost stories were the theme of Christmas during Victorian times and it's a tradition that is sorely missed. Charles Dickens is pretty much King of Christmas, and all these stories h......more

Goodreads review by Paul

A Christmas without Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol seems unthinkable, and therefore it’s appropriate that this Penguin Books edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Dickens is introduced with the well-known anecdote of how a child in London responded to the news of Dicken......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte

I love A Christmas Carol. Every film adaption from the black and white one to the muppets. But I have never read the story. So this year I vowed to finally read the original. Along with a few of Dickens’ other Christmas writings I really enjoyed it. I won’t bother with a synopsis, as everyone knows......more

Quotes

"[Simon Vance's] narration allows listeners to recognize how much Dickens wrote for the ear. Whitfield reads these stories like he is telling them beside a winter fire. His voice rises and falls with Dickens' rhythms, and it's easy to imagine Dickens acting out the eccentric and vivid characters that fill every story." AudioFile

"These stories portray the richness and traditions of a bygone era…The reader effectively creates a tone that delights the ear and enhances the sterling narration.” Kliatt

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