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The Victorian novelist of A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
Charles Dickens was the most popular novelist of Victorian England, the author of A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. When he was twelve his father was sent to debtors' prison and Charles went to work in a boot-blacking factory, an experience that shaped everything he wrote. He became a court reporter and journalist, and The Pickwick Papers made him famous at twenty-four.
His novels came out in monthly parts that readers waited for in crowds. He wrote about the poor, about children and about the cruelty of the law with humor and anger, and he invented characters still known by name: Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Fagin, Pip, Miss Havisham. He also gave hugely popular public readings of his work, so his books were made to be heard. He died at Gad's Hill in 1870.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge, Marley's ghost and the three spirits. Our most-played Dickens.
3 hr 13 min · read by Phil Thames 
A Tale of Two Cities
London, Paris and the French Revolution.
16 hr 36 min · read by ROGER ARNOLD 
The Signal-Man
A short, chilling ghost story about a railway warning.
38 min · read by Vincent Caruso
Narrated by Phil Thames
Dickens’s timeless holiday ghost story comes alive as Phil Thames guides Scrooge from greed to grace in a vivid, heartfelt performance perfect for festive nights or year-...
Narrated by ROGER ARNOLD
Love, sacrifice, and revolution collide across London and Paris as a weary soul finds redemption. Roger Arnold’s vivid narration brings Dickens’s classic to life with urg...
Narrated by JOHN RIDDLE
A retired life assurance manager looks back on one of the strange stories of his career. A charming, well-spoken man named Julius Slinkton comes to his office wanting to...
Narrated by Erika Calvert
Six pieces by Charles Dickens for the Christmas season: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy'...
Narrated by Stuart Bentley
Trotty Veck is a poor ticket porter who works outside a church, and he has begun to believe that the poor are born bad. On New Year's Eve the church bells call him up the...
Narrated by Vincent Caruso
Charles Dickens looks at a Christmas tree, hung with toys, dolls, and candles, and tells what each thing brings to mind. Every ornament calls up a memory or a story from...
Narrated by Tabitha Rickard
On a cold Christmas Eve, a kettle sings on the hearth and a cricket answers it. John Peerybingle, a carrier, comes home to his young wife Dot and their baby. Then a stran...
Narrated by Richard Stibbard
Pip, a poor boy, meets an escaped convict in the marshes. Years later he is given money by a secret person and sent to London to become a gentleman. He believes he knows...
Narrated by Mary Ellin Kurtz
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse and raised in hunger. When he asks for more gruel, he is sent away. He runs to London, where a gang of pickpockets led by the crafty F...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
A man takes a house that everyone says is haunted, and he settles in to see what is true. Charles Dickens wrote this as a Christmas ghost story for his magazine in 1859,...
Narrated by Vincent Caruso
A railway signal-man works alone in a deep cutting beside a dark tunnel. He tells a visitor that a ghostly figure has appeared at the tunnel mouth, waving and crying out,...
Narrated by Nathan Edwards
A man is called to jury duty for a murder trial, and as soon as he sees the court he knows something is wrong. Twelve men sit beside him, yet he counts thirteen. The extr...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A tender, soul-soothing Christmas meditation from Charles Dickens, warmly narrated by Mike Polischuk—an invitation to cherish memory, forgiveness, and enduring hope.
Born in Portsmouth, England.
Works in a blacking factory while his father is in debtors' prison.
The Pickwick Papers makes him famous.
A Christmas Carol.
A Tale of Two Cities.
Great Expectations.
Dies at Gad's Hill Place, Kent.
A Christmas Carol is the best known, along with Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.
Yes. His public readings in Britain and America were hugely popular, especially A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol. It is short enough for one or two evenings.
Academy Voices has 13 Charles Dickens audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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