The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens brings together all of Dickens’s most beloved works, from his first novel The Pickwick Papers (1836) to his final, unfinished masterpiece The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). This collection is seamlessly brought to life by a cast of award-winning narrators, including none other than Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Jason Isaacs, Samuel West, Jonathan Keeble, Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, David Rintoul, Paterson Joseph, David Timson, Nicholas Boulton, Emma Gregory, Matt Addis, Ben Allen, and Malk Williams.

Dickens wrote into life some of the most beloved and well-known characters in the history of English literature, introducing us to Pip, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Scrooge, Nicholas Nickleby, Miss Haversham, and many more who have lived in the imagination of generations of readers and listeners. In this definitive and beautifully curated collection, you discover not only Dickens’s most loved classics, but also hear a short introduction to his life and body of work from Dr Pete Orford: internationally renowned Dickens expert and the course director for the Charles Dickens Studies MA at the University of Buckingham.

The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:

• Foreword to the Collection by Dr Pete Orford
• The Pickwick Papers, read by Matt Addis
• Oliver Twist, read by David Rintoul
• Nicholas Nickleby, read by David Rintoul
• The Old Curiosity Shop, read by Juliet Stevenson
• Barnaby Rudge, read by Nicholas Boulton
• Martin Chuzzlewit, read by Ben Allen
• A Christmas Carol, read by Jason Isaacs
• The Chimes, read by David Rintoul
• The Cricket on the Hearth, read by Jonathan Keeble
• The Battle of Life, read by Jonathan Keeble
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, read by Jonathan Keeble
• Dombey and Son, read by Jonathan Keeble
• David Copperfield, read by David Rintoul
• Bleak House, read by Miranda Raison and Pearl Mackie
• Hard Times, read by Paterson Joseph
• Little Dorrit, read by Emma Gregory
• A Tale of Two Cities, read by Miriam Margolyes
• Great Expectations, read by Stephen Fry
• Our Mutual Friend, read by Samuel West
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, read by Ben Allen

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the twentieth century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read, performed and adapted today.

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