A HOUSE TO LET by CHARLES DICKENS AND OTHERS
head by Aath Golding
A HOUSE TO LET
by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter
A House to Let is a novella, originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter and the whole story was edited by Dickens.
The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)
Chap. 1: Over the Way (Dickens/Collins)
Chap. 2: The Manchester Marriage (Gaskell) Chap. 3: Going into Society (Dickens)
Chap. 4: Three Evenings in the House (Procter) Chap. 5: Trottle's Report (Collins)
Chap. 6: Let at Last (Dickens/Collins)
Read by Ruth Golding
Total running time: 4 hours 12 mins
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Cover illustration from Old English Country Cottages (1906), edited by Charles Holme (1848-1923). Copyright expired in United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
Cover design by Ruth Golding. This design is in the public domain.
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