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    Charles Dickens: A Portrait in Letters
    Charles Dickens: A Portrait in Letters
    Charles Dickens: A Portrait in Letters
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    Charles Dickens: A Portrait in Letters

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Simon Callow

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    Not surprisingly, over his lifetime, Dickens wrote many letters. David Timson and Simon Callow find the man behind the letters, exploring Dickens’s emotions—from joy and humor to confusion, great sadness, and resignation. Timson is as interested in the material as the listener will be. His crisp tenor voice is a pleasant contrast to Callow’s deeper, rounder tones. Callow is a full cast unto himself. Not only is he Dickens but he also creates a complete panoply of prominent and lesser-known recipients of Dickens’s letters. Callow and Timson create myriad personalities with varying accents, tones, class distinctions, and personal idiosyncrasies that are nearly flawless.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781843796893
    Charles Dickens: A Portrait in Letters
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    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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