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    The Short Stories of Charles Dickens: The Signalman; Mr. Testator's Visitation; The Bagman's Story; Christmas Ghosts
    The Short Stories of Charles Dickens: The Signalman; Mr. Testator's Visitation; The Bagman's Story; Christmas Ghosts
    The Short Stories of Charles Dickens: The Signalman; Mr. Testator's Visitation; The Bagman's Story; Christmas Ghosts
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    The Short Stories of Charles Dickens: The Signalman; Mr. Testator's Visitation; The Bagman's Story; Christmas Ghosts

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Nigel Lambert and Richard Mitchley

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    Charles Dickens enjoyed entertaining his friends with readings of ghost stories, especially at Christmas time. In his classic tale The Signalman, the then high technology world of steam railway comes to contact with what looks like a good old fashioned haunting. A night at a desolate country inn dramatically changes Tom Smart's fortunes in The Bagman's Story. Together with Christmas Ghosts and Mr Testator’s Visitation, these tales are fine examples of Dickens’s spine-chilling talents. These stories are read for you by RADA trained Nigel Lambert, a member of the National Theatre who has made numerous appearances for the BBC in fields as varied as classic drama and children’s television and Richard Mitchley who has worked in theatres throughout Britain as well as the BBC and ITV and his own Mayfly Theatre company.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781780000190
    The Short Stories of Charles Dickens: The Signalman; Mr. Testator's Visitation; The Bagman's Story; Christmas Ghosts
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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    • 3/5
      I'm not sure why this is subtitled with "detective stories" as Hunted Down is a single story. Or at least in this edition it is. It didn't grab me as much as some of his other work I've read, but it's a decent story, especially if you enjoy the style of that time.
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      Mr Sampson, the Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office tells the story of Julius Slinkton and the life assurance on his friend Beckwith.
      My copy of this book only contained this one mystery which was an enjoyable read