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The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales audiobook

  • By: Charles Dickens
  • Narrator: Liam Gerrard
  • Category: Classics, Fiction
  • Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales Audiobook Summary

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas in Five Staves when he was 31; the first edition was published on 19th December 1843 and had sold out just four days later and by the end of 1844, there were already 13 reprints. Now with numerous adaptations for film, television, radio, stage, and indeed, audiobooks, A Christmas Carol has, for many, become an essential part of Christmas!

Raconteurs Audio has created this audio anthology to include Dickens’ two Christmas novellas, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, as well as a collection of his lesser known short stories with a Christmas theme.

A Christmas Carol

Stave 1 – Marley’s Ghost read by Liam GerrardStave 2 – The First of Three Spirits read by Tim BruceStave 3 – The Second of Three Spirits read by James GilliesStave 4 – The Last of the Spirits read by Greg WaglandStave 5 – The End of It read by Malk Williams

Music

Stave 1 – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – English TraditionalStave 2 – The Three Kings – Peter CorneliusStave 3 – Gabriel’s Message – Basque NoelStave 4 – A Coventry Carol – English TraditionalStave 5 – This Is the Truth – English TraditionalFinale – In Dulci Jubilo – German Traditional

Original music arranged and produced by Kelvin Towse for this audiobook production.

Festive Tales

The Haunted House read by Greg WaglandA Christmas Tree read by Nigel PattersonThe Chimes read by James GilliesThe Christmas Goblin read by Liam GerrardThe Cricket on the Hearth read by Helen LloydNobody’s Story read by Malk WilliamsA Child’s Dream of a Star read by Tim BruceWhat Christmas Is as We Grow Older read by James Gillies

These stories originally published between 1843 and 1871 are in the public domain. The traditional music is also in the public domain.

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The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales Audiobook Narrator

Liam Gerrard is the narrator of The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales audiobook that was written by Charles Dickens

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over ten years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. His animation Walter Tull-Britain’s First Black Officer was nominated for a BAFTA in 2016, and he has been nominated for an Audie Award in 2017. He has narrated over thirty audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

He comes from a large Irish family, although he was raised in Yorkshire before moving to the Middle East, where he went to school. He studied at Lancaster University and then as a classically trained actor at Mountview; he is currently the youngest actor to play the lead role of Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest in London’s West End. He has worked for the most renowned theater companies, including the Royal Exchange Theatre (two Manchester theater award nominations), Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre (five Critics Choice nominations), Soho Theatre (MTN nomination), and most regional theaters throughout the U.K., including Alan Aykbourn’s SJT, New Vic, Oldham Coliseum, Nottingham Playhouse, and Theatre by the Lake. His wide-ranging experience has also seen him perform Opera in Rigoletto.

He is an associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in Broadcast Voice and is also a communication skills specialist and trainer. In addition, he is an examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Scottish College of Surgery.

In his spare time Liam is also a musician who plays the violin, drums, piano, and percussion. He also enjoys spending time with Peg, his Springer Spaniel, out on the Peak District whenever he can get away from the studio!

About the Author(s) of The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales

Charles Dickens is the author of The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales

The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales Full Details

Narrator Liam Gerrard
Length 12 hours 22 minutes
Author Charles Dickens
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781665021500

Subjects

The publisher of the The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Classics, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Spoken Realms. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781665021500.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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