The Uncommercial Traveller (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Uncommercial Traveller (Version 2), credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Uncommercial Traveller (Version 2) by Charles Dickens. Read in English by Mark Leder. In 1859, Charles Dickens launched his own newspaper, "All the Year Round". Unsurprisingly, Dickens included many short pieces by--guess who? Dickens was a reporter, a flaneur, and an insomniac, all three traits which prompted him incessantly to walk about, and observe. Thirty-seven of these stories he collected under the name of "The Uncommercial Traveller". - Summary by Mark Leder

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Uncommercial Traveller (Version 2)
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 16:05:19

Catalogue topics

• humor
• drama
• short stories
• vignettes
• local observation

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Chapter I, His General Line of Business — 2:59
2. 02 - Chapter II, The Shipwreck — 38:59
3. 03 - Chapter III, Wapping Workhouse — 29:33
4. 04 - Chapter IV, Two Views of a Cheap Theatre — 29:24
5. 05 - Chapter V, Poor Mercantile Jack — 32:10
6. 06 - Chapter VI, Refreshments for Travellers — 24:32
7. 07 - Chapter VII, Travelling Abroad — 33:21
8. 08 - Chapter VIII, The Great Tasmania's Cargo — 24:13
9. 09 - Chapter IX, City of London Churches — 29:11
10. 10 - Chapter X, Shy Neighborhoods — 27:48
11. 11 - Chapter XI, Tramps — 32:42
12. 12 - Chapter XII, Dullborough Town — 29:45
13. 13 - Chapter XIII, Night Walks — 25:53
14. 14 - Chapter XIV, Chambers — 34:11
15. 15 - Chapter XV, Nurse's Stories — 30:32
16. 16 - Chapter XVI, Arcadian London — 26:54
17. 17 - Chapter XVII, The Italian Prisoner — 26:34
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII, The Calais Night Mail — 23:56
19. 19 - Chapter XIX, Some Recollections of Mortality — 28:12
20. 20 - Chapter XX, Birthday Celebrations — 26:49
21. 21 - Chapter XXI, The Short-Timers — 30:23
22. 22 - Chapter XXII, Bound for the Great Salt Lake — 33:17
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII, The City of the Absent — 22:00
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV, An Old Stage-coaching House — 22:17

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