A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Life: it will hurt you sooner or later. You can respond one way or the other: with faith in compassion and love or with the fear that makes love so difficult. A Christmas Carol’s Ebenezer Scrooge wasn’t born a scrooge. In his childhood and youth he’d been full of goodwill. But life, with its cares and demands, had battered him about, had disappointed him enough that he gave himself over to the acquisition of money and the little power it afforded him over his fear of death. And then one Christmas Eve, his former and “beastly dead” partner, Jacob Marley, appeared to warn him of what awaited him in the afterlife if he did not change his ways. Scrooge was frightened, but not convinced. Enter Christmas Past, Present and Future. In an admixture of fear and love, Scrooge underwent the conversion made manifest on Christmas Day in generosity, kindness and amends.

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is perhaps the most popular Christmas story ever written this side of Bethlehem. Published in 1843, it revived a joyful and celebratory attitude toward Christmas and the Christmas season in England and America that had been lost with the 19th century’s industrialization and urbanization. With the efforts of Victoria’s kind husband, Prince Albert, who introduced the German customs of the Christmas tree and Christmas cards, and with the publication and immense popularity of Dickens’s novella, the Christmas season again became for England and America what it was meant to be – a season of joy, hope, celebration, gratitude and love. (Summary by Michael Hogan)

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Product Details

Read by: Multiple readers (versions 1 & 3), Bon Neufeld (version 2)
Length: Three readings - 9 hours 44 minutes total
Type: Dramatic readings
Media: MP3 CD
Package: DVD box
Item No.: DB-1040
EAN: 0684758936196
List Price: $9.99

Credits


Production

Version 1
Book Coordinator: Paula Berinstein
Meta Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg

Version 2
Book Coordinator: Paula Berinstein
Meta Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg

Version 3
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Proof Listener: Arielle Lipshaw

Artwork
Cover: “Scrooge's third visitor”, Illustration by John Leech from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Inset: Engraving from a photograph of Charles Dickens by Elliott & Fry from Great Britain and Her Queen by Anne E. Keeling.

The Recordings

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The Recordings

These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics. The audio files have been edited and engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. We spend considerable time and effort to ensure the recordings are free of noise, equalized for maximum listener pleasure, and that tracks are leveled and normalized to provide a consistent listening experience.

Table of Contents

Track Section Readers Length
1 01 - A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Preface and Stave 1 Mark Bradford 44:10
2 02 - A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 2 Kara Shallenberg 43:58
3 03- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 3 Kristen McQuillin 44:08
4 04- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 4 Hugh McGuire 41:43
5 05- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 5 Bill Stackpole 18:35
6 06 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 1 - Marley's Ghost Bob Neufeld 50:17
7 07 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 2 - The First of the Three Spirits Bob Neufeld 45:11
8 08 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 3 - The Second of the Three Spirits Bob Neufeld 59:10
9 09 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 4 - The Last of the Spirits Bob Neufeld 39:30
10 10 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 5 - The End of It Bob Neufeld 16:40
11 11 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 1 - Marley's Ghost Cast 44:08
12 12 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 2 - The First of the Three Spirits Cast 38:48
13 13 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 3 - The Second of the Three Spirits Cast 49:58
14 14 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 4 - The Last of the Spirits Cast 32:56
15 15 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 5 - The End of It Cast 14:33

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