Carles Dickens 200" Anniversary Collection Volume 1

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume is released on Dickens’ 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year.

Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction.

Some items requiring a little further explanation are Prince Bull, written as a fairy tale, but in reality a scathing attack on the Government's handling of supplies to the troops in the Crimean War; Old Lamps for New Ones in which Dickens makes clear his low opinion of the ethos of the Pre- Raphaelite school of painting; and Frauds on the Fairies, a polemic against George Cruikshank’'s bowdlerisation of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that ‘product placement’ is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

Read by Librivox volunteers. Total running time: 7:40:38

01 Prince Bull, a Fairy Tale from Reprinted Pieces : 02 The Poor Relation's Story from Some Christmas Stories **03 Speech: February 1842, Boston 04-Barbox Brothers from Mugby Junction 05-Barbox Brothers & Co. from Mugby Junction 06-Main Line: The Boy at Mugby from Mugby Junction 07-Frauds on the Fairies from Household Words Vol. VIII No. 184

08-Introductory Romance from the Pen of William Tinkling Esq. (Aged Eight) from Holiday Romance 09- Old Lamps for New Ones from Old lamps for new ones, and other sketches and essays 10-A Tale of the Good Old Times from Pearl-Fishing; Choice stories from Dickens' Household Words 11-Some Particulars Concerning a Lion from Mudfog and Other Sketches

12-To be Read at Dusk 13-The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber from Pearl-Fishing: Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words 14-The Amusements of the People 1 from Old lamps for new ones, and other sketches and essays hitherto uncollected 15-A Walk In a Workhouse from Reprinted Pieces 16-The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers from The Complete Poems 17-Speech: London, June

5 1867 to the Railway Benevolent Society 18-The Holly Tree First Branch - Myself 19-The Holly Tree Second Branch - The Boots 20-The Holly Tree Third Branch - The Bill

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