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Simon & Schuster Audio, October 2006
Abridged Compact Disk, 2 disks
ISBN-10: 0743563794
ISBN-13: 9780743563796
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Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol. The star of X-Men and The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stewart has performed his one-man stage production of this holiday classic to sell-out audiences. Now, in this Grammy nominated studio recording of the dazzling achievement that has thrilled audiences in New York and Los Angeles, Stewart invites listeners to rediscover the timeless story at its source: Dickens' own words, presented in a soaring, virtuoso solo performance in which Stewart plays all parts.
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Entertainment Weekly A low tech audio Christmas card: no sound effects, no gimmicks, just one of the the great voices of the contemporary classical stage creating as vivid a cast of characters as Dickens imagines. The Royal Shakespeare Company veteran...doesn't so much read the story as inhabit it with infectious delight.
Newsweek Reciting the litany of Scrooge's scrooginess, Stewart relishes the emotional gamut of meanness...Humbug seldom sounds so good.
The Washington Post Not only is Patrick Stewart wonderful, but this is surely one of the best performances of A Christmas Carol ever recorded...By sheer energy and dramatic skill, Stewart invests this story with not merely life, but freshness, excitement and wonder.
Bangalore Mirror, October 8, 2011
...The darker side of the gifted novelist was revealed by biographer Claire Tomalin his in new book... ...
Winnipeg Free Press, September 3, 2009
...carted to the Clarion, the most valuable offering, Peake says, is expected to be a first edition of Charles Dickens' debut novel, The Pickwick Papers, originally published in 1836-37 as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The price: ...
Cleveland Live, August 30, 2009
...4by/k1%>Daniel A. Hoyt More than 139 years after his death, Charles Dick ens lives on. Of course, his canonical works are still read, studied and adapted by the BBC, but Dickens also struts around London again and again in contemporary ...
St. Petersburg Times, August 24, 2009
...love? In Gaynor Arnold's first novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, based on the marriage of author Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine, the question hangs over readers through the entire book who must then draw their own conclusions. Dickens' ...
Livemint.com, August 21, 2009
...men from the perspective of their wives. The latest is Gaynor Arnold?s , a thinly veiled account of Charles Dickens? tumultuous personal life as narrated by his abandoned spouse. The reincarnated Dickens, Alfred Gibson, is a temperamental ...
Yahoo! India, August 21, 2009
...continues to draw the maximum attention. 'I guess the fact that I live in south of London, where Charles Dickens lived, got me on to historical fiction. I grew into the local history and when I decided to write a historical fiction, it had ...
Surrey Comet, August 20, 2009
...From Charles Dickens housing Estella in a residence on Richmond Green in Great Expectations to poet Mick Imlah featuring the Old Deer Park turf in his poem London Scottish in last year ...
Livemint.com, August 18, 2009
...who is himself an activist.In the preface to his book, he quotes Pip, the little urchin in Charles Dickens? Great Expectations, who says, ?In the little world in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and ...
The Hindu, August 17, 2009
...not getting published, but I wasnt afraid to write! Mridula said. The writer, influenced by the writings of Charles Dickens, Alice Munroe and Haruki Murakami, rued that the short story was the neglected offspring of English prose in India, ...
Telegraph and Argus, August 17, 2009
...adventure, reminiscent in style of the coach trips of Mr Pickwick and friends in The Pickwick Papers. Like Charles Dickens, JB Priestley had a great appetite for life and writing, and looked upon the world with a twinkling, compassionate ...
Book Reporter, August 14, 2009
...novels like his Pulitzer Prize-winning EMPIRE FALLS and BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Richard Russo has established himself as the Charles Dickens of lower middle class life in the dying towns of upstate New York. His latest novel reaches back to the ...
The List, August 14, 2009
...Joe, it avoids cliché by becoming intertwined with a secondary plot based around Kit?s academic investigation linking Charles Dickens to the murder of a prostitute in 1838 (a theory conceived and researched by the author herself). ?I hope ...
Chicago Sun-Times, August 9, 2009
...put down. Conroy's talent as a long-form writer calls to mind perhaps that greatest of all novelists, Charles Dickens. And among his modern-day peers, only John Irving can match Conroy's mastery of the form. Conroy's abiding interest in the ...
NetIndia123.com, August 5, 2009
...Claire Tomalin is said to have turned her attention to yet another popular novelist of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens. Tomalin, 76, who has already written biographies on Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys, is seen by scholars to ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 17, 2009
...art, and a finely rendered one. The book's twisted mix of despair and hope reminds one of Charles Dickens one moment, Elie Wiesel the next. How a privileged American physician managed to channel the spirit of a street urchin is nothing short ...
Book Reporter, July 17, 2009
...which Weaver finds himself. Similar to some of the more engaging work of earlier British authors, such as Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Liss has created a shadowy and perilous London where no one is to be trusted and unexpected allies ...
Knox News Sentinel, July 3, 2009
...actually turn out to be ?Drood,? ? he said, referring to the 2009 novel by Dan Simmons that presents Charles Dickens at the center of an occult mystery in 1860s Victorian London. Del Toro has also talked about adapting ...
NWI Times, July 2, 2009
...Ebenezer Scrooge is, well, a scrooge, until he is visited by some persuasive ghosts. Worth reading? It's Charles Dickens at his most accessible. And if your kids master this one, you can have 'Great Expectations' for their future reading ...
Indy.com, June 28, 2009
...Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland. ?Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens,?by Gaynor Arnold (Crown, $25.99, fiction). Debut novel based on the dysfunctional marriage of Charles Dickens and his ...
Dallas Morning News, June 28, 2009
...the course of 2001 as a twice-weekly serial in the features section of the San Antonio Express-News. Like Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin and other serial novelists, Brandon had to forgo the sweet luxury that other ...
Oxford Press, June 27, 2009
...that his family has owned for four generations. He inspires David with a copy of ?Great Expectations? by Charles Dickens. David is exhausted by the demands of his publishers to crank out more dreadful serial novels. He?s locked into a ...
Dayton Daily News, June 26, 2009
...that his family has owned for four generations. He inspires David with a copy of ?Great Expectations? by Charles Dickens. David is exhausted by the demands of his publishers to crank out more dreadful serial novels. He?s locked into a ...
Marieclaire.co.uk, May 12, 2009
...shortened into 140-character tweets, in the latest diversion to grow out of the popular Twitter website. Classics by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are among the novels to have been boiled down to a sentence by bookish readers ...
Yahoo! India, May 12, 2009
...London, May 12 (ANI): Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character 'tweets', as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the ...
Cairns Post, May 11, 2009
...Drood by Dan Simmons (Quercus) Few literary personalities in history have left such an enduring narrative legacy as Charles Dickens. Arguably the most well-known personality of his day and the undeniable precursor to the modern notion of ...
The Times, May 8, 2009
...The book is a near-miraculous emissary, sent out into the world to speak on its author's behalf. Charles Dickens was taken from school to work in a blacking factory - and so David Copperfield, whom Dickens counted as the fictional child ...
Daily American, May 6, 2009
...The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl (Random House, 378 pages, $25) is his idea of the story behind Charles Dickens unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood.Dickens American publisher James Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sand, to await ...
Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2009
...Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it's good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and ...
Daily Iowan, March 26, 2009
...Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. The Last Dickens is a thrilling work of historical fiction, in which Charles Dickens? struggling publisher (James Osgood) sends a young man (Daniel Sand) to retrieve Dickens? last novel, left unfinished as a ...
Hartford Courant, March 5, 2009
...Kubrick into the unforgettable 1971 commentary on psychological manipulation, starring Malcolm McDowell; 137 minutes. May 4: 'Great Expectations' Charles Dickens' 1861 classic about the adventures of young Pip, who rises in society from ...
The Oregonian, February 25, 2009
...$23.95, 329 pages), is a lively survey of dreams and dreamers, including Joan of Arc, John Adams, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Graham Greene and the twin towers of dreaming, Freud and Jung. Artists and writers have always ...
PR.com, February 21, 2009
...other novels. He also took a creative writing course at Phillips Andover Academy. Mr. Uce reveres William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and other literary giants. About Outskirts Press, Inc. Outskirts Press offers full-service, custom ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 7, 2009
...author of superb literary biographies of Mark Twain and Henry James as well as 'The Imagination of Genius, Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle,' examines Lincoln as a wordsmith and as both a creator and shaper of prose literature. In the ...
The State, February 5, 2009
...suddenly, all that smallness, all that caution, looks silly. Simmons? richly imagined chronicle of the last days of Charles Dickens is being dropped on the world at a fortuitous time ? just when we need to be bounced out of our doldrums. ...
Suite101.com, February 3, 2009
...produced Basil, his first novel based on crime, mystery and suspense. In his 30s Collins wrote stories for Charles Dickens's magazines. Dickens helped him bring humour and believable characters into his books. In turn, Collins's brilliant ...
Zaman, January 17, 2009
...short work, one chapter from Karaosmano?lu?s first novel, has. ?Nur Baba,? like many of the works of Charles Dickens, was first published as a serial in a newspaper. It was published in novel form in 1922 and it tells a love story with the ...
Business Today, December 26, 2008
...shows how a play of words and characterisation can amaze with the results. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ?It was the best of times, it was the worst of times??it is impossible to forget the opening lines. Set at the start of the ...
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