Audiobooks Poetry Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

by Charles DICKENS (1812 - 1870)

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume was released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012 and further volumes followed during the anniversary year.Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction.Some items requiring a little further explanation are Prince Bull, written as a fairy tale, but in reality a scathing attack on the Government's handling of supplies to the troops in the Crimean War; Old Lamps for New Ones in which Dickens makes clear his low opinion of the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting; and Frauds on the Fairies, a polemic against George Cruikshank's bowdlerisation of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that 'product placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)


A Tale of the Good Old Times

A Walk In A Workhouse from 'Reprinted Pieces'

Barbox Brothers & Co. from 'Mugby Junction'

Barbox Brothers from 'Mugby Junction'

Frauds on the Fairies from Household Words Vol. VIII No. 184

Introductory Romance From the Pen of William Tinkling, Esq. (Aged Eight) from 'Holiday Romance'

Main Line: The Boy at Mugby from 'Mugby Junction'

Old Lamps for New Ones

Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale from 'Reprinted Pieces'

Some Particulars Concerning a Lion from 'Mudfog and Other Sketches'

Speech: February 1842, Boston

Speech: London, June 5 1867 to the Railway Benevolent Society

The Amusements of the People I

The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber

The Holly Tree, First Branch - Myself

The Holly Tree, Second Branch - The Boots

The Holly Tree, Third Branch - The Bill

The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers

The Poor Relation's Story from 'Some Christmas Stories'

To be Read at Dusk