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Ebenezer Scrooge ist reich und geizig. Als seine Angestellten am Weihnachtstage früher Feierabend machen wollen, ist er entsetzt über den Mangel an Arbeitsmoral. Als er nach Hause geht, erscheinen ihm Geister, die nichts Gutes verkünden, denn sie können ihm die Zukunft zeigen... Hat Ebenezer Scrooge noch eine Chance? Das wohl schönste Weihnachtsmärchen aller Zeiten aus der Feder von Charles Dickens.

Amy Dorrit, urodzona i wychowana w więzieniu, opiekuje się ojcem osadzonym tam przed laty za długi. Nie zna innego świata, ale staje się w tym ponurym miejscu dobrą duszą, wspierającą wszystkich, z którymi zetknie ją los. Amy zarabia na życie rodziny, szyjąc u pani Clennam, skąpej wdowy, mieszkającej w ponurym domu tylko w towarzystwie dwójki służących. Zmianę zwiastuje powrót - po dwudziestu latach - Arthura Clennama, jej jedynego syna, który spędził połowę życia wraz ze swym ojcem w Chinach.

Als Scrooge am Heiligabend von seinem Londoner Kontor nach Hause kommt, wird er von dem Geist Marleys, seines ehemaligen Geschäftspartners, und von den Geistern der vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Weihnachtsfeste heimgesucht. Sie zeigen ihm das Glück, das er durch seine Geldgier und Kälte verspielt hat, aber auch, wie einsam er dereinst sterben wird, wenn er nicht vorher sein Leben ändert.

Das einsame Leben des umherziehenden "billigen Jakobs" Marigold ändert sich, als er die kleine taubstumme Sophie zu sich nimmt. Als Sophie sich verliebt, muss Marigold eine schwierige Entscheidung treffen...

Dicken's short story features a railway Signal-man who is haunted by a ghostly spectre that visits him each time prior to a tragic event. This is a classic ghost story that has even won favour by Doctor Who.

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production - enhanced with music and sound effects - of perhaps the most beloved Christmas book of all time, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It tells the story of the miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge, who is given one, final chance at redemption on Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is guided by three Spirits - of Christmas Past, Present and Future - who show the old miser the error of his ways.

Frank Pettingell reads the classic Christmas tale.

Basil Rathbone stars in this staged version of Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens' most notorious reading from the classic Oliver Twist is performed by his Great Great Grandson Gerald Dickens. Causing ladies in the audience to faint and Dickens himself to collapse, Nancy and Sikes always shocked the audience. The drama and the passion of Nancy's murder are still as powerful and chilling as it was in Charles Dickens' time.

Written in 1867, The Magic Fishbone is one of Charles Dickens' best loved fairy tales for children. It tells the story of an impoverished King who can barely manage to keep his nineteen children, and it is a long time until pay day. One day he meets a Fairy Godmother who tells him to give his eldest daughter, Princess Alicia, a piece of salmon, and after she has eaten everything but the bone, she is to dry and polish the bone carefully because it has magic powers.

Oliver Twist es una de las grandes obras del siglo XIX, del escritor inglés Charles Dickens, quien narra con lujo de detalle y mucha ternura las penurias que padece el pequeño protagonista llamado Oliver Twist. Este conmovedor personaje, un huérfano que crece en las calles, se encuentra a una pandilla comandada por individuos sin escrúpulos que tratan de convertirlo en un ladronzuelo. A pesar de ello, Oliver conoce también a personas buenas y honestas que le tienden la mano.

Die glücklichen Tage sind vorbei, als David Copperfield nach London zu seiner Tante Betsey zieht. Bei ihr lernt er Not und Einsamkeit kennen...

On New Year’s Eve, Trotty becomes disheartened with life and feels that the working classes are wicked by nature after so many report of crime and mortality. His daughter, Meg, announces her plans to marry her fiancé on New Year's Day, something that Trotty is not particularly happy about. After meeting Will and his niece Lilian, the group return to Trotty's house. During the night, Trotty feels the church bells are calling him, so heads to the tower and climbs up to the bell chamber.

If you think you know Oliver Twist, think again.... The world according to Oliver Twisted is simple: Vampyres feed on the defenceless, orphans are sacrificed to hungry gods, and if a woe-begotten catches your scent it will hunt you forever. When a talking corpse reveals that Oliver will find his destiny in London, he sets out to find the truth - even if it means losing his soul.... A monstrously good story for older children, Oliver Twisted is a terrifying take on Dickens, with added zombies, vampires, and werewolves.

Dickens' exuberant novel charts the rise of its young hero Nicholas Nickleby, who progresses from an impoverished youngster gladly accepting his uncle's offer of help, to an assured businessman capable of thwarting villainous plans. The book unfolds in a series of vivid scenes, starting with Nicholas accompanying the vicious schoolmaster, Wackford Squeers, north to the grim Dotheboys Hall.

In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him - already a successful author in both Britain and the United States. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the custom of slavery in the southern states.

Gerald Dickens, great, great grandson of Charles Dickens, reads this traditional Christmas tale, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. Published in 1843, A Christmas Carol has become as much a part of Christmas as trees and stockings, plum pudding and mistletoe, enjoyed by children and adults alike. This audiobook includes a special feature, as family member Gerald Dickens recounts his understanding of this classic story.

Read by Juliet Stevenson and Simon Callow, A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology that collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens’ ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new - from John Donne’s Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Rudyard Kipling’s "Christmas in India", from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to Laurie Lee’s "Cider with Rosie".

Gerald Dickens, the great great grandson of Charles Dickens, reads one of his more unusual novels, Doctor Marigold. First introduced in 1865, The Adventures of Doctor Marigold pulls the audience into the story until they become part of this gentleman's life.

Charles Dickens' brilliant comic adventure of a lamplighter, Tom Grig, who is called into the house of an eccentric astronomer who is searching for the philosopher's stone. He declares that the stars have foretold that Tom will marry the astronomer's niece and inherit the secret of the philosopher's stone, which will make him the richest man on earth.