The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

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Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Trent and her Grandfather are the main characters, who secretly set off from their home under cover of night, to escape the wicked dwarf Quilp. Pursued across England, their adventures lead them through poverty stricken city areas where several destitute people offer them aid on their way, into the countryside where they meet the strange, colorful, and sometimes menacing characters for which Dickens is so well known.
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Preface - 00:00
Chapter 01 - 04:15
Chapter 02 - 41:43
Chapter 03 - 59:44
Chapter 04 - 1:20:25
Chapter 05 - 1:41:08
Chapter 06 - 1:56:46
Chapter 07 - 2:20:37
Chapter 08 - 2:36:27
Chapter 09 - 3:00:33
Chapter 10 - 3:27:01
Chapter 11 - 3:40:21
Chapter 12 - 4:01:05
Chapter 13 - 4:18:59
Chapter 14 - 4:40:25
Chapter 15 - 4:55:57
Chapter 16 - 5:18:18
Chapter 17 - 5:31:36
Chapter 18 - 5:50:27
Chapter 19 - 6:08:26
Chapter 20 - 6:32:54
Chapter 21 - 6:44:14
Chapter 22 - 7:06:54
Chapter 23 - 7:19:01
Chapter 24 - 7:41:45
Chapter 25 - 7:56:01
Chapter 26 - 8:15:28
Chapter 27 - 8:31:48
Chapter 28 - 8:53:58
Chapter 29 - 9:08:33
Chapter 30 - 9:31:01
Chapter 31 - 9:43:38
Chapter 32 - 10:07:40
Chapter 33 - 10:20:25
Chapter 34 - 10:43:32
Chapter 35 - 10:56:01
Chapter 36 - 11:20:09
Chapter 37 - 11:32:53
Chapter 38 - 11:50:14
Chapter 39 - 12:11:54
Chapter 40 - 12:26:19
Chapter 41 - 12:44:20
Chapter 42 - 13:00:29
Chapter 43 - 13:22:12
Chapter 44 - 13:37:03
Chapter 45 - 13:59:22
Chapter 46 - 14:15:03
Chapter 47 - 14:38:01
Chapter 48 - 14:51:06
Chapter 49 - 15:12:56
Chapter 50 - 15:28:17
Chapter 51 - 15:50:39
Chapter 52 - 16:06:15
Chapter 53 - 16:29:21
Chapter 54 - 16:44:50
Chapter 55 - 17:10:14
Chapter 56 - 17:24:25
Chapter 57 - 17:47:28
Chapter 58 - 18:00:49
Chapter 59 - 18:23:52
Chapter 60 - 18:39:37
Chapter 61 - 19:03:37
Chapter 62 - 19:17:33
Chapter 63 - 19:41:40
Chapter 64 - 19:56:59
Chapter 65 - 20:21:57
Chapter 66 - 20:34:48
Chapter 67 - 21:14:47
Chapter 68 - 21:38:55
Chapter 69 - 21:55:40
Chapter 70 - 22:20:26
Chapter 71 - 22:35:52
Chapter 72 - 22:57:29
Chapter 73 - 23:16:25
Read by Mil Nicholson (librivox.org/reader/2026)

Пікірлер: 92

@felipegonzalez7304 4 жыл бұрын

Ms. Mil Nicholson, you narrate a beautiful novel beautifully. Your reading is like a play, with you acting all the parts. Bravo!

@dianamills5243 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful reading. We are lucky to have a professional reader make this available without charge. And thank you muchly to the person who edited out all the 'This is a librivox recording....' It must have been tiresome, but so improves the flow. And II read this for the fun of it, not because of a school assignment !

@FForFiktion 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. So many people go like "OMG this channel is stealing this from Librivox!"... as if all the work of editing, cleaning up noise, marking chapters, getting a nice cover, etc, means nothing.

@aslanlovett4059 5 жыл бұрын

I resent anyone who belittles your hard work. I listen to yours or Magpie audios content every work day. Thank you

@anneconnerton1010 4 жыл бұрын

Audiobooks Unleashed l

@sandragrundy1516 3 жыл бұрын

It's too good and professional to be librivox,

@paolamura3497 3 жыл бұрын

Love this. And the editing Is so well done, it all flows to the perfection, thanks!

@poetryjones7946 5 жыл бұрын

Beautifully read, it’s a blessing to stumble upon such a talent for narration. Applause, Mil Nicholson! 🌹

@davewatson3007 Жыл бұрын

Get lost Watson870 8:19:51

@helens7630 4 жыл бұрын

Superb reading - the dwarf is the most excellent sounding evil villain! I had no idea of the end - was so surprised! Thank you so much.

@stevenbrown6277 2 жыл бұрын

Flawlessly narrated. This novel is a Dickens masterpiece. Thoroughly engrossing.

@kevincook7510 5 жыл бұрын

I very much enjoyed the person that read this awesome book bravo!!!! Thank you I got a week's worth of interesting listen at work,loved the difference in the caracters voices,thanks

@Buildingratness Жыл бұрын

this is more than reading this is Vocal theater. I feel so fortunate to have been able to enjoy this book in this fashion. Many thanks.

@jamieorourke767 Жыл бұрын

23 hours of this wonderful story,my opinion is the grandfather was the reason for all the pain heaped on little nell

@gothby9815 4 жыл бұрын

Normally listen to books at work. This book had me wrapped up so much I had issues shutting it off. Narrator is a great part of this.

@yelloowaunt1122 4 жыл бұрын

What an amazing reading! Thank you for the fine job you have done of editing, and doing audio magic! I thought I had read most of Dickens, but then found I had missed more than a few. I am so glad you have given us this gift. Thank you

@rebeccakakilala6212 3 жыл бұрын

1:35:53

@fedesetrtatio1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you and God bless, what a beautiful reading. A thorough enjoyment I must say.

@maureenmcmonagle3321 2 жыл бұрын

Mel Nicholson manages so many characters voices it's like there are varias persons doing the reading. How does she do it.? I am mesmerized.

@maudegonne3740 3 жыл бұрын

Dickens had a sinister imagination. A little girl preyed upon by a variety of dodgy men, -and openly lusted after by a deformed dwarf.

@mnmdisney 4 жыл бұрын

Charles Dickens The man that invented Christmas 🎅🌲🌲

@christinahall2587 4 жыл бұрын

Queen Alice Kingsley Yes, he said, “ There is magic in the very word, ‘ Christmas’. 🎄🎄🎄

@janmariolle Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this delightful reading. You brought drama and life to this wonderful story. These characters will live forever in my mind because of your interpretation.

@qingma7663 4 жыл бұрын

What a curiosity story ! The reader was so good to create the mystery air . Beautiful !

@UnderworldgoddessMoon 3 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite version of all versions out there on audio

@oceandojo 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent pick. Librivox has a lot of great readers such as Mil, here. Enjoy the way she reads.

@findgarnet88 5 жыл бұрын

2019!!! borrowed the book The Old Curiosity Shop, out of curiosity! and more glad to have found this audio.

@SuperRickyjenkins 3 жыл бұрын

I want to say thankyou your voice is so exciting and for working class and for free you are a true contribution to humanity.You are a fantastic ladu thankyou.

@marymacdonald6807 3 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine a better choice of reader.

@pamelafreeman4548 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this so much! Thank you for reading!

@jennifervonpickartz2428 3 жыл бұрын

I thank God for You. Love, Light, Peace, Music and Joy

@rosanna5515 Жыл бұрын

As to you.

@randomlight1069 8 ай бұрын

Well. That's a first! Gollum (the evil Quilp)makes an appearance in a Dickens novel. I have been totally enraptured by this one, especially by the narration. (PRECIOUSSSS 💍)😅an amazing grasp of the old English or how I've always imagined it helped by the famous films such eg Oliver and Great expectations. THANX.

@deedixon81 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your hard work 💜 I listen to your voice until I fall asleep 😴 💤 I appreciate the time and effort,I admit I would not be satisfied now until listening to all your dickens works.goodnight godbless

@lingua-multiga 2 жыл бұрын

Great listening. Thank you for your beautiful reading.

@rimjhim411 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful narration.

@TheSybil47 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the reader. I really appreciate your hard work.

@sandragrundy1516 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic - thank you so very much.

@mattlugg1185 3 жыл бұрын

So good, soooo good. I love it.

@atq8148 2 жыл бұрын

Great narrator! Thank you

@GhostSavannah 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Many thanks for your great care and work.

@steveluck9541 3 жыл бұрын

Listening to a bit more everyday and keeping fingers crossed that Quilp meets a sticky end! Don in Sexy Beast is the last villain I hated as much.

@Boogie_the_cat Жыл бұрын

My only complaint would fall to the fact of Dickens choosing to call one character "the bachelor" and another character "the single man" and I get confused between the two. Mil did a great job of narrating, and her different character voices are superb. And she did an especially great job with the lines after Mr. Brass drank the boiling rum and was coughing and spluttering at the heat and strength of it.

@emmymo4349 4 жыл бұрын

Love it. Great job!

@ansel-rf7po 6 ай бұрын

Nice 😊

@32446 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully read. Thank you

@boum62 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully read

@evelanpatton Жыл бұрын

Be brilliant! Thank you!

@babybooandherhumandeb3188 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You 😷

@Pablo-pd2gr 3 жыл бұрын

Great !

@HangNguyen-ul8eh 11 ай бұрын

It will be better than if the story have books so we can hear and read

@davidwalsh9654 Жыл бұрын

Perfection.

@raspberrykitten6676 4 жыл бұрын

I think this is my favorite Charles Dickens book (it’s rivaled by an tale of two cities’ and then Pickwick Papers’, but I think this is still my fav.)Thanks so much for uploading it!

@edgarallanpoe1822 Жыл бұрын

This is excellent.Dickens must be presented by a British voice Likewise any American work read by an English reader will be ridiculous

@CrudupZopf-ns4dr 8 ай бұрын

The narrator appears to Portray the character of Master Humphrey & Charles Dickens who were one & the same person

@bearheart2009 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely narrator. Do you know her name? Is it a Librivox?

@FForFiktion 5 жыл бұрын

It's in the description, isn't it?

@bearheart2009 5 жыл бұрын

@@FForFiktion I didnt see it down there under time stamps, sorry =D

@corstafine 3 жыл бұрын

@@FForFiktion nice......no really

@jwood8427 4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

@BookZealots Жыл бұрын

parts of the book aren't in the audio. Does anyone know why that is?

@laurahope7053 6 жыл бұрын

41:46

@richarddelanet Жыл бұрын

11:51:30 hrs - 11:54:15 hrs "And man has his love of home from God. And if those who rule the destiny of nations would remember this... In love of home, love of country has its rise, and who are the truer patriots for the better in time of need? those who venerate the land owning all they produce or those who love their country boasting not a foot of ground in all its wide domain?" Quite Brexit really, and not a little Sir Roger Scruton? And "Love of home is where all domestic virtue springs.... etc etc". And there is much else to consider in this short passage.

@rl7012 2 ай бұрын

You remainer wet wipes bring Brexit into everything. Leave Dickens alone, it is a good story so stop with your woke nonsense.

@pinkowl8135 6 жыл бұрын

46:05

@melissasmith195 Жыл бұрын

It's hard to find a professional reader reading stories from Charles Dickens Jules Verne and other classic authors that are not flat. I got lucky with some audio books but with others I'm still searching. When you're reading to someone or are recording the reading you need to put some emotion into it and emphasize and if you're told that enough try to do voice. Pretend you're reading to a room full of Young children.

@drazenamadeus 4 жыл бұрын

3.20 Chapter 17,18,20,33,51,56 21.26

@yorkshirerose6334 9 ай бұрын

1:04

@crystal4046 4 жыл бұрын

3:07:30

@15-Peter-20 6 жыл бұрын

32.12

@aslanlovett4059 5 жыл бұрын

18:14:23

@15-Peter-20 6 жыл бұрын

32:00

@ja1756 Жыл бұрын

The characters are amazing so. Some beautiful and others ugly and still others so repulsive that as a reader I wished were to be removed from all of society.

@clarewu7955 3 жыл бұрын

20:40:00

@timmy18135 3 жыл бұрын

2:00:12

@airviper3457 3 жыл бұрын

30:03

@user-vi3sz3fg2r Жыл бұрын

5 57

@TheAdventurousHermits 5 ай бұрын

09:17:00

@stephenreeds3672 3 жыл бұрын

Hope this doesn't seem churlish, but her reading, altho much better than the others on Librivox, I find a bit too other worldly. A bit sing song. But by far the best.

@richarddelanet Жыл бұрын

Abusive people don't like Charles Dickens eh?

@ronaldronca7547 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent tale.....but I'll never understand a reader's passion for voice characterizations ( this particular reader is very talented ) has not the ability to make an easier effort of skipping over the identity of each and every quote be it one syllable or a long speech, what is the sense of multiple voices but for the reader's self indulgence.

@mariovillarreal8647 Жыл бұрын

To tell the tale entertainingly for one.

@jawhardawood7667 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant narration! Excellent dramatization of the characters. But what a waste of time and breath on such a childish novel! The plot is weak stuffed with a lot of nonsense, unnecessary digressions and tens of marginal characters that contribute little or nothing to the development of the story. No wonder, Dickens wrote it when he was only 28 years old. The novel bears the hallmark of an amateur.

@LadyIarConnacht Жыл бұрын

Keep in mind this wasn't written as a novel. This was released in 88 sections in a newspaper. The long and winding plot and silly characters were meant to entertain the readers, and to keep them in suspense, so that they would continue to buy the papers. Getting to the point quickly and efficiently would have run counter to purposes.