The Christmas Stories

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing—with an emphasis on family and friends.

Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions, and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

The stories on this audiobook are:

  • A Christmas Tree
  • What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
  • The Poor Relation's Story
  • The Child's Story
  • Nobody's Story
  • The Seven Poor Travellers
  • The Holly Tree
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    The Christmas Stories

    No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing—with an emphasis on family and friends.

    Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions, and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

    The stories on this audiobook are:

  • A Christmas Tree
  • What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
  • The Poor Relation's Story
  • The Child's Story
  • Nobody's Story
  • The Seven Poor Travellers
  • The Holly Tree
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    No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing—with an emphasis on family and friends.

    Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autobiographical, recollections of childhood, reflections on past holidays and old friends, as well as tales of misunderstandings and lost opportunities. They reaffirm the virtue of nurturing our traditions, and offer a master storyteller's vision of the real meaning of Christmas.

    The stories on this audiobook are:

  • A Christmas Tree
  • What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
  • The Poor Relation's Story
  • The Child's Story
  • Nobody's Story
  • The Seven Poor Travellers
  • The Holly Tree

  • Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9780786133796
    Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    Publication date: 11/09/2004
    Edition description: Unabridged

    About the Author

    About The Author

    CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870) was born in Landport, Portsea, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him two years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life.

    SIMON VANCE is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie® Award in 2006. Born in England, he worked for ten years as a radio news announcer for the BBC and as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Besides narrating, he is involved in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.

    Date of Birth:

    February 7, 1812

    Date of Death:

    June 18, 1870

    Place of Birth:

    Portsmouth, England

    Place of Death:

    Gad's Hill, Kent, England

    Education:

    Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington
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