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Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. NIGHT WALKS: Some years ago, a temporary inability to sleep, referable to a distressing impression, caused me to walk about the streets all night, for a series of several nights.

In Mugby Junction passieren seltsame Dinge, denn der Streckenposten fühlt sich verfolgt und beobachtet. An seinem Abschnitt in Mugby Junction tauchen immer wieder Dämonen und Geister auf. Immer dann, wenn demnächst etwas Schreckliches passieren wird. Was hat es damit auf sich? Die Ereignisse häufen sich und es wird mit jedem Mal schlimmer. Viel schlimmer. "Schaffner, wie heißt dieser Ort?" "Mugby Junction, Sir". So beginnt der gleichnamige Hörbuch-Band von Charles Dickens mit spannenden Kurzgeschichten, die zum Träumen und Reisen durch England mit seinen wunderbaren Landschaften einladen.

An engrossing collection of detective stories featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, J. G. Reeder, and C. Auguste Dupin. 1.The Tea-Leaf by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace 2.The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton 3.The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes by Ernest Bramah 4. The Club of One-Eyed Men by Arthur Somers Roche 5.Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin 6.The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah

Canción de Navidad es el primero y más famoso de los cuentos que Dickens escribió con centro en la Navidad y como evocación de la infancia. El viejo Scrooge es un brillante hombre de negocios y un avaro incorregible. La víspera de Navidad recibe la visita del fantasma de su viejo compañero de negocios y amigo Jacob Marley.

In this fully dramatized adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Michael Dick (Ebenezer Scrooge) and cast take you on an incredible journey into the supernatural as a miserly man comes to realize the true spirit of Christmas. Featuring virtuoso performances from the entire cast, riveting sound effects, and original music, Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol is an adventure in sound and imagination.

Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham and her ward, the arrogant and beautiful Estella. In this fascinating story, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. Pip must establish a sense of self against the plans which others seem to have for him—and somehow discover a firm set of values and priorities.

"Hard Times" by Charles Dickens is a powerful social commentary on the harsh realities of industrialization in 19th-century England. This podcast explores the struggles of factory workers, the stark class divisions, and the dehumanizing effects of utilitarianism. Join us as we dive into the lives of memorable characters like Thomas Gradgrind and Louisa Bounderby, reflecting on themes of education, empathy, and moral responsibility in a mechanized society.

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.

Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve and transformed from an odious miser to a charitable and loving man who vows to always cherish the Christmas season.

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens' first novel. Because of his success with Sketches by Boz published in 1836 Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became Britain's first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise.

First published in 1850, David Copperfield begins with avid the tragedy of David's brother dying when David is just a boy. After this episode, he is sent by his step-father to work in London for a wine merchant. When conditions worsen he decides to run away and embarks on a journey by foot from London to Dover. On his arrival, he finds his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood, who becomes his new guardian. Being witness to the formation of David's character is quite fascinating. David begins as a strong child whose only aspiration is a better life.

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London. Instead, the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town.

One of Dickens’ best loved short stories, "The Signalman" is the mysterious tale of a railway worker haunted by premonitions of disaster. The titular signalman works on a remote and forbidding part of the line, and finds himself with an unexpected visitor in the form of a tourist (the story’s narrator), but the travelling man is not the only stranger the signalman encounters at his post.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Dickens' tale of Pip, a young man "removed from his present sphere of life" and cast into a Victorian nightmare, is a powerful audio drama to be enjoyed and appreciated as an important piece of social criticism.

Ghost stories from the golden age. Six great writers weave their spell in creepy, insidious style.

First published in 1843-4, the novel which Dickens considered 'in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories' concerns the Chuzzlewit family in all various branches. At the heart of the story is young Martin, who is disowned by his wealthy grandfather and dismissed from the household of the architect Pecksniff, and sets out to make his own way in the world and win the hands of Mary Graham, an orphan raised by his grandfather.

> Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternate title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.

Bekannt als die Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens, ein Hörerlebnis der Extraklasse, gelesen und interpretiert von dem bekannten und erfolgreichen Synchronregisseur und -sprecher Lutz Riedel...

Wie jeden Tag zeigt sich Mr. Scrooge auch am Heiligen Abend als Geizhals und Menschenhasser. In der Nacht bekommt er unerwarteten Besuch: Der Geist seines verstorbenen Geschäftspartners prophezeit ihm, dass er im Jenseits den Preis für seine Herzlosigkeit bezahlen wird, wenn er sich nicht ändert. Die Geister der vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und künftigen Weihnacht entführen den alten Scrooge auf eine Reise, die ihm die Augen öffnet und ihn zu einem besseren Menschen werden lässt.