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The Frozen Deep was originally written as a play by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. With Dickens himself gracing the stage as Wardour, the play was met with success, drawing audiences to tears night after night, and even performing for Queen Victoria herself. Drawing on reports of the real-life Franklin expedition of 1845, in which a crew had set out from England to discover the North Passage and disappeared without a trace, Collins and Dickens recreated the events of the ill-fated journey.

"The Battle of Life: A Love Story" is a novella by Charles Dickens, 1st published in 1846. It's the 4th of his five "Christmas Books", coming after "The Cricket on the Hearth", followed by "The Haunted Man & the Ghost's Bargain". The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.

Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen "Die Mitternachtsstory") aus. Der Schauspieler Friedrich Schoenfelder las darin Grusel- und Kriminalgeschichten für Erwachsene zur guten Nacht vor. Bezeichnenderweise schlug er selbst 1972 der Unterhaltungsabteilung des SFB vor, eine Sendereihe zu starten, in der von ihm redaktionell ausgewählte Gruselgeschichten zu Gehör kommen sollten.

In this adaptation of Dicken’s classic story Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley who warns Scrooge of a visit he will be paid by three ghosts - Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Through these visits, Scrooge realizes what he has been missing and what he will miss in the future if he doesn’t change his ways. He ends up at the home of Bob Cratchit, one of Scrooge’s employees and enjoys a wonderful Christmas with the Cratchit family.

This adaptation of Charles Dickens's beloved novella, A Christmas Carol, attempts to convey this wonderful story of a covetous old sinner's redemption into a two hour long performance. In its narration, some slight liberties have been taken to make accessible obscure words and references that some modern listeners may find challenging. The retained dialogues and dialects are those of Charles Dickens and remain faithful to his writing.

Unique to this title is: a study of the themes present in The Chimes. You may, of course, skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. The story of The Chimes concerns a working class man who comes to believe that he is worthless and worries that working-class people are wicked by nature.

Charles Dickens' Traumen Wohl kaum eine andere Weihnachtsgeschichte ist so bekannt und so oft adaptiert worden wie das "Weihnachtslied in Prosa" von Charles Dickens. Wer kennt ihn nicht, den geizigen und kaltblütig berechnenden Ebenezer Scrooge, der in der Weihnachtsnacht von drei Geistern heimgesucht und zu einem mitfühlenden und warmherzigen Leben bekehrt wird.

Pour revivre les petits bonheur des histoires racontées au coin du feu, laissez ce recueil de contes merveilleux connus ou oubliés vous emporter. Ces histoires hivernales ont fait vibrer des générations de lecteurs, alors fermer les yeux et laissez la magie opérer.

Cuento de Navidad es una novela escrita por el británico Charles Dickens y publicada originalmente 19 de diciembre de 1843. Su trama cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y egoísta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su conversión tras ser visitado por una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. Una variedad de conceptos y publicaciones influyeron en Dickens como sus experiencias de la infancia, su simpatía por los pobres y varios relatos navideños y cuentos de hadas. Se puede considerar el relato como una condena de la avaricia.

Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother, and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas's uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Ralph, a cold-hearted businessman, is reluctant to help his relations and has an immediate dislike of Nicholas, perhaps because he reminds him of his dead brother.

The classic and heart warming tale which captures the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly old man of business about whom a warm word is never said nor given back. One chilly Christmas eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner who bears a dire warning, and a final chance to change his miserly ways.

Sicher habt ihr schon den weltberühmten Klassiker "Oliver Twist" gelesen oder als Film im Fernsehen oder im Kino gesehen. Doch nun könnt ihr "Oliver Twist" endlich auch als spannendes und ergreifendes Hörspiel erleben. Ihr seid Zeugen, wie ein Waisenjunge in die finstersten Abgründe der Londoner Verbrecherwelt gerät und die gefährlichsten Abenteuer zu bestehen hat. Gibt es noch Rettung für ihn?

Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

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This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert and his heart at an "ice princess" whose heart will never respond. But then an ...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism.The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in character.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgThis is a Librivox Recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.

Les penúries econòmiques de Dickens van inspirar les seves millors novel·les (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Temps difícils), de gran contingut i crítica social. Gràcies a una herència, Charles deixa la fàbrica on treballava i es posa a estudiar. Aprèn taquigrafia i amb 17 anys escriu als diaris. El 1836 escriu per a un editor una novel·la per fascicles setmanals, Oliver Twist, on mostra amb cruesa la difícil vida dels més pobres. Va tenir un enorme èxit.

Was bedeutet der Brief an Charles Darney? Kennt Therese Defarges das Geheimnis der Evrémonds? Was verheimlicht Sidney Carton? Kann Tom Stryver helfen? Durch welches unsichtbare Band sind all diese Menschen miteinander verbunden? Der englische Dichter Charles Dickens beweist uns auch in diesem Teil seines Romans "Die Geschichte zweier Städte" überzeugend, menschlich und spannend: Das Leben ist ein Abenteuer!

Warum soll Lucie Manette eine Reise nach Paris unternehmen? Ist Ken Barsad ein Spion? Wen versteckt Ernest Defarges? Ist Charles Darney ein Hochverräter? Welches unberechenbare Schicksal führt all diese Menschen zusammen? Der englische Erzähler Charles Dickens hat uns auch in seinem Roman "Die Geschichte zweier Städte" eindringlich, mitreißend und spannend vor Augen geführt: Das Leben ist ein Abenteuer!

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is set in Paris and London, firmly placed in the period leading up to and including the French Revolution to the subsequent Reign of Terror. It's primarily the tale of Doctor Alexandre Manette, who is unjustly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years; his daughter, Lucie Manette, who believes him to be dead; two men who both fall in love with her; and the supporters or foes of the family who, for their own reasons, love or despise them.