Tales From Dickens

by Hallie Erminie Rives

66 chapters10h 38mEnglish1905

About this book

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)

Chapters (66)

1The Old Curiosity Shop - Little Nell

523

2The Old Curiosity Shop - The Wanderers

762

3The Old Curiosity Shop - The Search

878

4Oliver Twist - How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There

929

5Oliver Twist - Oliver's Adventures

775

6Oliver Twist - How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver in the End

957

7Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby's Boyhood

497

8Barnaby Rudge - The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was

529

9Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Gets Into Trouble

542

10Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby Prospers at Last

638

11David Copperfield - David's Early Ups and Downs

923

12David Copperfield - Little Em'ly

478

13David Copperfield - David and His Child-Wife

410

14David Copperfield - David Finds All Well at Last

496

15Great Expectations - Pip and the Convict

623

16Great Expectations - The Queer Miss Havisham

743

17Great Expectations - Pip Discovers His Benefactor

516

18Great Expectations - Pip Comes to Himself

570

19Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall

486

20Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Becomes an Actor

366

21Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue

330

22Nicholas Nickleby - What Happened to Everybody

435

23Dombey and Son - Little Paul

831

24Dombey and Son - How Florence Lost Her Father

756

25Dombey and Son - How Florence Reached a Refuge

352

26Dombey and Son - How Florence Found Her Father at Last

584

27The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Begin Their Adventures. They Meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and Winkle Is Involved in a Duel

498

28The Pickwick Papers - Tupman Has a Love-Affair With a Spinster, and the Pickwickians Find Out the Real Character of Jingle

687

29The 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

616

30The 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

373

31The Pickwick Papers - The Pickwickians Find Themselves in the Grasp of the Law. The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a Christmas Merrymaking

479

32The Pickwick Papers - The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick. Sergeant Buzfuz's Speech and an Unexpected Verdict

498

33The 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

633

34The 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

462

35The Pickwick Papers - Snodgrass Gets Into Difficulties, But Wins His Lady-Love. The Adventures of the Pickwickians Come to an End

488

36Little Dorritt - How Arthur Came Home from China

468

37Little Dorritt - The Child of the Marshalsea

698

38Little Dorritt - What Riches Brought to the Dorrits

462

39Little Dorritt - What Happened to Arthur Clennam

411

40Little Dorritt - "All's Well That Ends Well"

633

41Martin Chuzzlewit - How Martin Left England

649

42Martin Chuzzlewit - Pecksniff and Old Chuzzlewit

477

43Martin Chuzzlewit - Jonas Gets Rid of an Enemy

455

44Martin Chuzzlewit - What Came of Martin's Trip to America

405

45Martin Chuzzlewit - Old Chuzzlewit's Plot Succeeds

360

46Our Mutual Friend - What Happened to John Harmon

601

47Our Mutual Friend - Lizzie Hexam and the Dolls' Dressmaker

401

48Our Mutual Friend - The Rise and Fall of Silas Wegg

417

49Our Mutual Friend - Bella and the Golden Dustman

447

50Our Mutual Friend - The End of the Story

495

51A Tale of Two Cities - How Lucie Found a Father

894

52A Tale of Two Cities - Darnay Caught in the Net

753

53A Tale of Two Cities - Sydney Carton's Sacrifice

608

54Bleak House - The Court of Chancery

614

55Bleak House - Lady Dedlock's Secret

739

56Bleak House - Little Joe Plays a Part

623

57Bleak House - Esther Becomes the Mistress of Bleak House

505

58Hard Times - Mr. Gradgrind and His "System"

730

59Hard Times - The Robbery of Bounderby's Bank

638

60Hard Times - Harthouse's Plan Fails

513

61Hard Times - Stephen's Return

585

62The Mystery of Edwin Drood - John Jasper

329

63The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Coming of Neville Landless

438

64The Mystery of Edwin Drood - The Choirmaster's Dinner

466

65The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Jasper Shows His Teeth

538

66Charles Dickens

1312

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