Charles Dickens, Author , read by Patrick Stewart. Audioworks $14.95 (
, two CDs, 2 hrs., $14.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-6379-6
, two CDs, 2 hrs., $14.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-6379-6
This reissued recording of Stewart's touted Broadway performance might prove to be the enduring interpretation of Dickens's beloved tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of past, present, and future who catalyze his...
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Charles Dickens, read by Martin Jarvis, BBC Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-6028-3876-5
The inimitable Martin Jarvis brings his talents to bear on Charles Dickens's classic in an audiobook that will delight listeners with its superb recreations of gritty 19th-century London. To escape Mr. Bumble and life in the workhouse, Oliver flees...
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Charles Dickens, read by David Horovitch. Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, 29 CDs, 38 hrs., $152.98 ISBN 978-1-84379-561-2
This unabridged audio edition of Dickens’s classic novel of poverty, effort, and persistence puts the emphasis on unabridged, clocking in at nearly 40 hours—but dedicated listeners will be rewarded with an engaging and entertaining reading from...
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Charles Dickens, illus. by Livia Signorini. Tara Books (PGW, dist.), $19.95 (130p) ISBN 978-93-80340-16-6
This travelogue of Dickens's 1844 Italian sojourn retains the wit and sumptuous detail of his novels, but lacking an explicit narrative, the book never coalesces into much more than a series of sketches. The fragmentary nature of the text is...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. Harper $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-165099-4
Helquist's vision of the classic story depicts a hawkish Scrooge (who's a cadaverous shade of green) against a backdrop of bustling Victorian streets, with pleasing touches of detail, humor and a few frightful strokes. When the clock...
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Charles Dickens, illus. by Quentin Blake. Anova/Pavilion (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $16.99 (150p) ISBN 978-1-84365-165-9
Blake interprets Dickens’s Christmas classic with his characteristically droll ink-and-watercolor illustrations. The oversize format, large print, and combination of both spot art and full-page images create an accessible layout for those first...
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Charles Dickens, read by David Timson. Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, 25 CDs, 32 hrs., $137.98 ISBN 978-1-84379-555-1
With true artistry, narrator David Timson brings to life the misadventures of the Pickwick Club. In Dickens’s first novel, Samuel Pickwick (founder and president of the eponymous club) and three “Pickwickians” travel outside the comforts of London...
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Charles Dickens, Author, David Timson, Read by , read by David Timson. Naxos Audiobooks $59.95 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-857-4
David Timson reads Dickens's last complete novel with a sense of fun. As always, Dickens creates a fabulous array of characters: the nouveau riche Veneerings, the dwarf who makes doll clothes, the bizarre schoolmaster, and the abysmally poor...
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Charles Dickens, Author, David Timson, Read by , read by David Timson. Naxos $54.98 (0p) ISBN 978-9-62634-990-8
This dark study of pride is a pivotal—if unappreciated—work in Dickens's oeuvre. Dickens focuses on the Dombey family, eschewing his idiosyncratic panoramic scope and ensemble casts. David Timson is a dream casting; he endows each...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Rick Geary, Illustrator, Rick Geary, Adapted by . NBM/Papercutz $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59707-097-3
Returning to print after more than a decade, this first volume in the relaunch of the Classics Illustrated series presents a handsomely rendered adaptation of the orphaned Pip's first-person narrative of his journey from humble childhood to...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Mercer Mayer, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $16.95 (43p) ISBN 978-0-02-730310-0
Purists may object to this careful abridgement of the holiday classic, aimed at young readers who may not have someone around to read the original out loud. Mayer has retained much of the language of Dickens's work, making sensitive cuts in the text
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Charles Dickens, Author, C. Dickens, Author, L. Zwerger, Author NorthSouth $19.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1259-8
Lisbeth Zwerger's glorious watercolors for Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, first published in 1988, once again prove that she is as adept at creating the terrifying image of Christmas Yet to Come as she is showing the miraculous...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Jim Dale, Read by Listening Library $19 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8602-3
Bah, humbug! Just in time for the holidays, actor Jim Dale reads a new, unabridged version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It's a natural extension for Dale, who is the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks and who also takes the stage in
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Charles Dickens, Author, Jim Dale, Read by Random House Audio/Listening Library $19 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8603-0
Bah, humbug! Just in time for the holidays, actor Jim Dale reads a new, unabridged version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It's a natural extension for Dale, who is the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks and who also takes the stage in
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Charles Dickens, read by Simon Prebble. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 15 CDs, 18.5 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-4551-2290-5
This beloved classic from Dickens follows the life and adventures of a six-year-old orphan named Pip as he makes his way and comes of age in 19th-century England. Simon Prebble turns in a solid performance in this audio edition, offering up a lush...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Michael Patrick Hearn, Author, Michael Patrick Hearn, Editor ; illus. by John Leech. W.W. Norton , $ 27.95 (288p) ISBN (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05158-2
For many people in the 21st century, Dickens's A Christmas Carol has come to define what "keeping Christmas" should look like. And according to Michael Patrick Hearn's superb introduction to this annotated edition of Dickens's...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Roberto Innocenti, Illustrator Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $30 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55670-161-0
Few of the many interpretations of Dickens's holiday parable can match this handsome edition for atmosphere, mood and sheer elegance. Innocenti's full-page watercolors are striking, full-bodied evocations of 19th-century London, particularly the...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Jonathan Winters, Performed by, Mimi Kennedy, Performed by , read by Jonathan Winters and Mimi Kennedy. HighBridge Audio $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-532-4
Dickens's classic holiday tale, like many cultural touchstones, often falls into the trap of perennial reinterpretation. First aired in 1990 but only now available on CD, NPR's presentation serves to place the familiar story back in its...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator Picture Book Studio Ltd $19.95 (66p) ISBN 978-0-88708-069-2
A well-loved holiday story, Dickens's slim tale has been opened up on the oversize pages of this new version, similar in format to Zwerger's treatment of The Gift of the Magi. Expanses of white space around and between lines of text give the volume...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Lesley Baxter, Author, Christian Birmingham, Illustrator Dial Books $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1995-8
A Twist of Beauty An inviting design may inspire readers of a newly abridged edition of Charles Dickens's classic Oliver Twist to join the hero in asking, please sir, for more. Christian Birmingham spots nearly every page of text with a small,...
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Charles Dickens, Author, Harvey Chan, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83482-0
Rendered in oil pastels, Chan's (Music for the Tsar of the Sea) softly focused, shadowy paintings at once capture a Victorian sensibility and the ethereal, romantic tenor of Dickens's lyrical parable about the cycle of life. Marked by a verbal...
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Diana Reynolds Roome, Author, Charles Dickens, Author, Jude Daly, Illustrator , illus. by Jude Daly. FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-32015-7
Contemporary in their perspectives, jewel-like in their palette, Daly's (Gift of the Sun
) exquisite illustrations nonetheless sing of the ancient East as depicted in Chinese scrolls and Indian miniatures, where tiny figures people panoramic...
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Jane Austen, Author, Charles Dickens, Author, David Starkey, Introduction by , intro. by David Starkey. Ecco $16.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-06-135195-2
Unbeknownst to most readers today, Austen and Dickens each wrote a satiric history of England. Austen's The History of England from the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st
—written in 1791 when she was 16—is a...
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Etienne Delessert, Author, Charles Dickens, Author, Etienne Delessert, Illustrator . Creative Editions $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-139-7
Delessert (I Hate to Read) reveals what happens to the famous septet after Snow White wakes up; as she prepares to wed the prince the diminutive heroes are invited to be honored guests. The drama of the vengeful queen and her loquacious mirror...
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Various authors, read by Bronson Pinchot, Simon Prebble, Bill Wallis and others, AudioGO, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $24.95 ISBN 978-1-60283-935-9
The usual suspects—Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, and O. Henry—are present and accounted for in this fine introduction to the mystery genre. The selections are excellently performed by such audio stars as...
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Robert Ingpen, Illustrator, Charles Dickens, Author Slawson Communications, Inc. $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9587845-6-6
Perhaps best described as Dickens's ``other'' Christmas story, this is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the gifts and toys that decorate the traditional tree. There is a range of appeal in the story...
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Charles Dickens. Alma/Alma Classics (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $12.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-84749-227-2
Dickens’s tales of the eerie, full of ghosts, supernatural creatures, and possibly intoxicated hallucinations, are grouped together in this spooky and occasionally humorous collection. The first three tales, from the serial The Pickwick Papers, are...
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Charles Dickens, illus. by Tisha Cherry and Vega Hernando. Puffin, $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-451-47992-1
This innovative holiday outing—the kick-off to a series—integrates the complete text of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic with integrated seasonal recipes sampled from Giada de Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and Trisha Yearwood. Chapters—o
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