Three Short Stories

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season.

"The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man" were written for the Christmas market, and all lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home. But there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality: their eager anticipation by a whole nation tells us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power.

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Great Stories

The reading was excellent! There is an echo in the sound, but the reader is still wonderful quality and not like some readers you encounter with audiobooks. The stories were not ones I was familiar with, but they reminded me of A Christmas Carol and it was a good listen.

Just not quite as good as the novels

Great performance but the old recording has persistent echos and background noise. The stories are ok but not really more than Dickens trying out characters and themes for the novels.

Recording not the best

The stories are brilliant, the narration is excellent, but the recording is poor. You can hear other voices and noise in the background which is disturbing and takes away from the book. It's a shame because otherwise it would merit 5 stars.

great stories but audio is aweful!

these are three great dickens stories absolutely ruined by the worst audio i have heard. a good deal of whitenoise almost as audible as the sound makes it unlistenable!