TrackSectionReadersLength
101 - A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Preface and Stave 1Mark Bradford44:10
202 - A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 2Kara Shallenberg43:58
303- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 3Kristen McQuillin44:08
404- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 4Hugh McGuire41:43
505- A Christmas Carol (collaborative) Stave 5Bill Stackpole18:35
606 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 1 - Marley's GhostBob Neufeld50:17
707 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 2 - The First of the Three SpiritsBob Neufeld45:11
808 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 3 - The Second of the Three SpiritsBob Neufeld59:10
909 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 4 - The Last of the SpiritsBob Neufeld39:30
1010 - A Christmas Carol (solo) Stave 5 - The End of ItBob Neufeld16:40
1111 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 1 - Marley's GhostCast44:08
1212 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 2 - The First of the Three SpiritsCast38:48
1313 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 3 - The Second of the Three SpiritsCast49:58
1414 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 4 - The Last of the SpiritsCast32:56
1515 - A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading) 5 - The End of ItCast14:33

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Notes
Running time:  9 hours 44 minutes

Version 1
Read by: Multiple readers (see contents)
Book Coordinator: Paula Berinstein
Meta Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg

Version 2
Read by: Bob Neufeld
Book Coordinator: Bob Neufeld
Meta Coordinator: Barry Eads
Proof Listener: Kristin Gjerløw

Version 3
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Proof Listener: Arielle Lipshaw

Artwork
Cover: “Scrooge's third visitor”, Illustration by John Leech from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Inset: Engraving from a photograph of Charles Dickens  by Elliott & Fry from Great Britain and Her Queen by Anne E. Keeling.

Recordings
These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members and volunteers of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. The audio files have been lightly edited and have been engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics.


Life: it will hurt you sooner or later. You can respond one way or the other: with faith in compassion and love or with the fear that makes love so difficult. A Christmas Carol’s Ebenezer Scrooge wasn’t born a scrooge. In his childhood and youth he’d been full of goodwill. But life, with its cares and demands, had battered him about, had disappointed him enough that he gave himself over to the acquisition of money and the little power it afforded him over his fear of death. And then one Christmas Eve, his former and “beastly dead” partner, Jacob Marley, appeared to warn him of what awaited him in the afterlife if he did not change his ways. Scrooge was frightened, but not convinced. Enter Christmas Past, Present and Future. In an admixture of fear and love, Scrooge underwent the conversion made manifest on Christmas Day in generosity, kindness and amends.

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is perhaps the most popular Christmas story ever written this side of Bethlehem. Published in 1843, it revived a joyful and celebratory attitude toward Christmas and the Christmas season in England and America that had been lost with the 19th century’s industrialization and urbanization. With the efforts of Victoria’s kind husband, Prince Albert, who introduced the German customs of the Christmas tree and Christmas cards, and with the publication and immense popularity of Dickens’s novella, the Christmas season again became for England and America what it was meant to be – a season of joy, hope, celebration, gratitude and love. (Summary by Michael Hogan)


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EAN - DVD case 0684758936196
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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Read by Multiple readers
Length 9 hours 44 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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