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Essential Dickens CD: Christmas Carol, A (Caedmon Essentials) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Creator: Sir Ralph Richardson
Publisher: Caedmon
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $11.14
You Save: $1.81 (14%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 179271
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0061376507
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061376504
ASIN: 0061376507
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Product Description
Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, in a full cast dramatization, on CD for the first time! As much a part of Christmas as mistletoe, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol warms the heart of listeners with its tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. This enchanting, full-cast recording brings Dickens' London to life on a Christmas Eve when Mr. Scrooge, who loves money more than people, is visited by his old, dead business partner Marley and three Ghosts who show him Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Through the fine characterizations of acclaimed actors led by Sir Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, Scrooge's journey through his life and the lives of those around him charms and delights the listener as he, and they, learn the true meaning of Christmas.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Absolutely the best! December 27, 2008
If this is what I think it is, it is the hands-down best rendition of this most essential of stories. I feel it is better by far than any visual dramatization. When I read the original, I hear the voices of these readers. They are simply irreducible.
 So So Audiobook transfer September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this disc of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" to replace a cassette
in my collection that I have been having the pleasure of listening to for a long time. Sir Ralph Richardson and company deliver an abridged performance of the work, done as a radio play of sorts. The recording done in the Sixties is a little dated in the violin sound effects, but the acting makes up for a great deal here. My only complaint is that when
the recording was originally released it was done in Two channel bin-aurally, the tranfer sounds like they attepted to force it into stereo with a curious sounding outcome. Thats why only 4 stars instead of 5. This does not however diminish the performances of the players, or mar the story itself.
transporting April 10, 2008
I have listened to this rendition every year for the last 40 years - needless to say, this is an indispensible part of my Christmas. I close my eyes and am transported to 19c London. It is magic.
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