Charles Dickens Audiobook Downloads
Many free mp3 downloads of the works of Charles Dickens are available. This page provides to links to where you can get these free downloads. The downloads listed in the free section are, of course, free but because they were read by volunteers and not always professional readers the quality varies. You may also wish to check out the Dickens audio downloads available at Amazon.com
Download A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Free audio download of A Christmas Carol at Archive.org. Or buy A Christmas Carol read by Orson Welles and other audio books at Amazon.com
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Download Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Unabridged version of a Tale of Two Cities read by Jane Aker. Free audio book download available in MP3 format at LiteralSystems.org. Or download from Amazon.com
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Download Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens’s full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city’s utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was written in 1854 and was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, which Dickens viewed as a selfish and at times oppressive philosophy. Perhaps the novel’s best features are its clever, ironic narration and the larger-than-life characters that push the plot forward, such as the upper-class banker and hypocritical braggart, Josiah Bounderby, and the fact-driven schoolmaster, Thomas Gradgrind. (Summary by Rosalind Wills). Free Download at Librivox.org.
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