Charles Dickens made the first of 3 trips to the United States in 1842, when he was 30 and already...

Dickens’s first historical novel is set in 1780s England at the time of the Gordon Riots. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, a pale half-wit, is arrested as leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters.

Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce - the most notorious case in English literature - depicts the murky...

First published in monthly parts from March 1852 to September 1853, this novel follows the fortunes of three pedestrian characters - Esther Summerson, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone...

A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions.

First published in monthly parts from March 1852 to September 1853, this novel follows the fortunes of three pedestrian characters; Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone.

A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions.

The long, drawn-out case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce provides the background to this novel which takes us into Dickens’ world of impoverished people on the street, lovers fallen on hard times and the grand riches of the upper classes.

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853.

This dramatization by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air presents four classic holiday tales from the great writer Charles Dickens, complete with a full cast, music, and sound effects.

Scrooge, Copperfield, and Twist are brought together in a gift set of classic recordings.

In "The Holly Tree," the narrator is an old man who tells his Christmas story, which is that he came...

A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens' Christmas books, and the story of the miser Scrooge's redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as...

This is Jim Dale's incomparable telling of the beloved A Christmas Carol, a "little book," as Charles Dickens himself called it, which has been treasured by generations since December of 1843.

"I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry," grumbles the patron saint of misers, Ebenezer Scrooge. Curmudgeonly Scrooge thinks Christmas is "humbug" with only one purpose - to cheat honest employers like himself out of a day's labor from his workers.

Ever since the first publication of A Christmas Carol in 1843, the tale of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, humble Bob Cratchit, and beloved Tiny Tim has had a special place in the Christmas tradition.

The St. Charles Players present a new and thrilling adaptation of this classic tale, performed in exciting Radio Theatre style.

Will there ever be a time that listeners will not want to hear the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas?

“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding,” says Scrooge.

A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard.

A classic tale of a bitter miser who is visited by the ghosts of his past present and future...

Through a series of visions in which ghosts reveal his past, present, and future, the miserly Scrooge is given the chance to review his life and to change its outcome.

‘A ghostly little book’ said Charles Dickens of his famous Christmas novella which appeared in 1843.

What would Christmas be without roast goose, a flaming plum pudding, and Tiny Tim proclaiming "God bless us, every one!"

The Grammy(-nominated, bestselling classic returns, just in time for the holiday season.