Charles Dickens
5) Oliver Twist
6) Bleak House
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christmas. All he cares about is money. Then one Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. These encounters leave Scrooge deeply moved and forever changed. Historians believe that A Christmas
...Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse. Eventually he ends up in the London street gang run by Fagin, who attempts to blacken the boy's pure soul in his service. Through chance and coincidence Oliver is restored to his mother's middle-class family, where he is shown love and comfort for the first time in his life. The villains' attempts to kidnap him back are foiled and all are transported or hanged.
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...Charles Dickens beloved Christmas story in a play and dramatic format narrated by Sam Goodyear, noted narrator, actor, and writer, who makes the story easily listened to by Americans in an educated American voice used by Sam when playing John Adams in the Adams-Jefferson-Abigail Adams play. Particularly moving with his spirited narration and feeling. An American voice for easier listening.
The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens' novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens' pantheon.
From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys' boarding school run by the cruel
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