Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1. 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 is released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow 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, with the interesting revelation that 'product placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 7:40:38

Catalogue topics

• dickens
• fiction
• short stories
• essays
• household words
• poetry
• speeches
• Crimean War

Track guide

1. 01 - Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale from 'Reprinted Pieces' — 16:22
2. 02 - The Poor Relation's Story from 'Some Christmas Stories' — 25:06
3. 03 - Speech: 1842, Boston — 11:31
4. 04 - Barbox Brothers from 'Mugby Junction' — 1:00:43
5. 05 - Barbox Brothers & Co. from 'Mugby Junction' — 42:00
6. 06 - Main Line: The Boy at Mugby from 'Mugby Junction' — 22:54
7. 07 - Frauds on the Fairies from Household Words Vol. VIII No. 184 — 21:43
8. 08 - Introductory Romance From the Pen of William Tinkling, Esq. (Aged Eight) from 'Holiday Romance' — 17:47
9. 09 - Old Lamps for New Ones — 17:19
10. 10 - A Tale of the Good Old Times — 23:00
11. 11 - Some Particulars Concerning a Lion from 'Mudfog and Other Sketches' — 12:33
12. 12 - To Be Read at Dusk — 28:42
13. 13 - The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber — 17:20
14. 14 - The Amusements of the People I — 18:06
15. 15 - A Walk In A Workhouse from 'Reprinted Pieces' — 18:44
16. 16 - The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers — 2:26
17. 17 - Speech: London, June 5 1867 to the Railway Benevolent Society — 11:03
18. 18 - The Holly Tree First Branch - Myself — 57:29
19. 19 - The Holly Tree Second Branch - The Boots — 27:15
20. 20 - The Holly Tree Third Branch - The Bill — 8:41

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