Internet Archive's in-browser audio with external links "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

A House to Let

by: Charles Dickens

Publication date: 2009-01-31

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: mystery, fiction, short stories, librivox, literature, audiobook

Language: English

LibriVox recording of A House to Let, by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Read by Ruth Golding.

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 (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole 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)

For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.

For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.

Download M4B (88MB)

Addeddate: 2009-01-31 14:38:10

Boxid: OL100020109

Call number: 2823

External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:house_to_let_rg_librivox

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-04T18:03:39Z

Identifier: house_to_let_rg_librivox

Ocr: tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815

Ocr_autonomous: true

Ocr_detected_lang: en

Ocr_detected_lang_conf: 1.0000

Ocr_detected_script: Latin

Ocr_detected_script_conf: 1.0000

plus-circle Add Review

comment
Reviews

Reviewer: Teutonic girl - - May 9, 2014
Subject: Neat little story

Having partaken in a similar writing project, I know that it's no mean feat to take on a story where somebody else has let off. I think it is nicely done.

Ruth Golding does a perfect job at bringing it to life.

Reviewer: mikezane - - July 29, 2010
Subject: Mixed review

This book is a collaboration of stories joined together by the main character. Each section has a different author, and the styles of writing change from section to section. I think that is why I wasn't as pleased by this story as the other reviewers were.

Some of the sections were difficult to follow, others were excellent. Overall, this is an okay book.

The reader was excellent and has a great reading voice. She did a nice job. I just found the story difficult to get into.

Reviewer: ListeninginChicago - - April 28, 2010
Subject: Delightful collaboration

I enjoyed the collaboration. You don't quite know where the next chapter is going to take you.

Ruth does an excellent job reading this solo project - she's so easy to listen to, and so subtly expressive.

Reviewer: Kydiana - - January 19, 2010
Subject: An amusing conundrum...

This story revolves around a house which is apparently vacant--or is it? The plot goes through many twists and turns in the search for an answer to this question.

Ruth Golding's narrations is wonderful, adding greatly to the characterizations and comic touches throughout. Thank you!

78,238 Views

13 Favorites

4 Reviews