Tales From Dickens: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales From Dickens, credited to Hallie Erminie Rives, 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 Tales From Dickens, by Hallie Erminie Rives. The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dickens stories? The author of this marvelous book, Rives Ermine, a highly successful author in her own right, simply wanted to retell the basic elements of some of Dickens best beloved novels and story lines. Now is your chance to revisit these stories and revive the memories of great reads. Of it you haven't gotten around to some of these classics, this would be a marvelous chance to listen to read what they are about so you can enjoy them even more in the original later. The synopsis of each book by Dickens, broken into 3 or 4 sections, is read by a single LibriVox reader for a more consistent and understandable flow. As an added treat, the author's essay on Charles Dickens has been added as the last section of this audiobook. (summary by Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales From Dickens
• Author credits: Hallie Erminie Rives
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 10:38:47

Catalogue topics

• Dickens
• synopsis
• books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 01 - The Old Curiosity Shop - Little Nell — 8:43
2. 02 - The Old Curiosity Shop - The Wanderers — 12:43
3. 03 - The Old Curiosity Shop - The Search — 14:39
4. 04 - Oliver Twist - How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There — 15:30
5. 05 - Oliver Twist - Adventures — 12:56
6. 06 - Oliver Twist -How Everything Turned Out Right For Oliver in The End — 15:57
7. 07 - Barnaby Rudge - Barnaby's Boyhood — 8:18
8. 08 - The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was — 8:49
9. 09 - Barnaby Gets Into Trouble — 9:03
10. 10 - Barnaby Prospers at Last — 10:38
11. 11 - David Copperfield 1 - David's Early Ups And Downs — 15:23
12. 12 - David Copperfield 2 Little Em'ly — 7:58
13. 13 - David Copperfield 3 David And His Child-Wife — 6:50
14. 14 - David Copperfield 4 David Finds All Well At Last — 8:16
15. 15 - Great Expectations, Pip and the Convict — 10:23
16. 16 - The Queer Miss Havisham — 12:23
17. 17 - Great Expectations - Pip Discovers His Benefactor — 8:36
18. 18 - Great Expectations - Pip Comes to Himself — 9:31
19. 19 - Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall — 8:06
20. 20 - Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Becomes an Actor — 6:07
21. 21 - Nicholas Nickleby - Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue — 5:30
22. 22 - Nicholas Nickleby - What Happened to Everybody — 7:16
23. 23 - Dombey and Son - Little Paul — 13:52
24. 24 - Dombey and Son - How Florence Lost Her Father — 12:36

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