Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4, 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 recording of Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4. Read by volunteer readers. This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens' birthday on February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 4
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 7:25:12

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• poetry
• essays
• letters

Track guide

1. 01 - 'Lively Turtle' from Household Words, Vol. II No. 31 — 18:32
2. 02 - 'The Out-and-out Young Gentleman' from Sketches of Young Gentlemen — 11:14
3. 03 - 'Our French Watering-place' from Reprinted Pieces — 42:09
4. 04 - 'The Tattlesnivel Bleater' from All the Year Round, Vol. II No. 36 — 18:04
5. 05 - 'The Amusements of the People II' from Old lamps for new ones, and other sketches and essays hitherto uncollected — 19:48
6. 06 - 'Romance from the Pen of Miss Nettie Ashford (Aged half- past six)' from Holiday Romance — 17:32
7. 07 - A Message from the Sea, Chapter 1 — 22:07
8. 08 - A Message from the Sea, Chapter 2 — 32:46
9. 09 - A Message from the Sea, Chapter 3 — 33:12
10. 10 - 'The Toady Tree' from Household Words, Vol. XI No. 270 — 14:38
11. 11 - 'The Loving Couple' from Sketches of Young Couples — 17:59
12. 12 - 'Where We Stopped Growing' from Household Words, Vol. VI No. 145 — 18:05
13. 13 - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Part 1 — 45:22
14. 14 - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Part 2 — 36:38
15. 15 - 'Down with the Tide' from Reprinted Pieces — 22:50
16. 16 - 'Proposals for Amusing Posterity' from Household Words, Vol. VI No. 151 — 12:05
17. 17 - 'Child's Hymn' from Complete Poems — 1:36
18. 18 - 'Letters from Dickens to his sub-editor, W. H. Wills, 1858' from Charles Dickens as Editor — 26:06
19. 19 - 'Fire and Snow' from Household Words, Vol. VIII No 200 — 17:11
20. 20 - 'It is not Generally Known' from Household Words, Vol. X No. 232 — 17:24

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