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    Three Short Stories
    Three Short Stories
    Three Short Stories
    Audiobook9 hours

    Three Short Stories

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Donada Peters

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and 1847. Three Short Stories brings together a trio of the celebrated author's Christmas stories: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. All three lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home, but there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality. Each year, a whole nation would eagerly anticipate these tales, telling us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 30, 2009
    ISBN9781400181292
    Three Short Stories
    Author

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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    • 2/5
      I usually enjoy Dickens, but these novellas just didn't do it for me. Both The Cricket on the Hearth and The Battle of Life suffered from the author's customary verbosity with plots that were scarcely worth bothering with. If you can make head or tail of The Haunted Man then you're a better man than I am.
    • 4/5
      Not as good as volume I in my humble opinion, but still good!
    • 4/5
      Donada Peters (aka Wanda McCaddon) does a marvelous narration of these 3 holiday stories by Dickens.1) The Cricket on the Hearth - 4*Sentimental but so enjoyable. This story was the only one of the 3 I remember reading before...2) The Battle of Life - 3*I can't decide if this story was a bit too melodramatic or just a tad predicatable... in either case, it seemed to have little to do with the Christmas season (except for the family sentiment).3) The Haunted Man - 3.5*Good story though I am not sure that I agree with the moral of the story...