The Dickens Library

Charles Dickens

Step into the rich, bustling world of Charles Dickens, where every sentence sparkles with wit, warmth, and sharply observed humanity. This podcast offers his novels in their purest form; unhurried, unabridged, and allowed to shine exactly as he wrote them.

Dickens’s prose is a feast: playful yet pointed, humorous yet heartfelt, and always driven by characters so vivid they feel instantly familiar. If you’ve ever wanted to lose yourself in gripping plots, unforgettable personalities, and some of the most delightful writing in English literature, this is your invitation. Press play and let Dickens do what he does best: captivate.

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Yesterday · 34 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter X - A Passage In The Life Of Mr. Watkins Tottle Chapter The First
In which a timid yet hopeful gentleman of diminutive stature, Mr. Watkins Tottle, embarks upon the bewildering enterprise of matrimony, aided by a blunt and outspoken friend who introduces him to a peculiar lady of rigid propriety and delicate...
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Monday · 23 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter IX - Mrs. Joseph Porter
In which the spirited Gattleton family enthusiastically prepares for an amateur theatricals night at their Clapham residence, enduring the humorous trials and tribulations that accompany their diligent rehearsal and costly production. Amidst the...
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Sunday · 39 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter VIII - The Great Winglebury Duel
In which the tranquil town of Great Winglebury becomes the scene of a curious drama involving anonymous letters, disguised identities, and a perplexing duel challenge, set against the familiar backdrop of its spirited inn, the Winglebury Arms. Through...
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Saturday · 49 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter VII - The Steam Excursion
In which the lively and sociable Mr. Percy Noakes enthusiastically organises a grand steam excursion involving a curious assortment of families, legal gentlemen, and various musical entertainments aboard the hired steamer Endeavour. Amidst rivalries,...
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Friday · 26 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter VI - The Black Veil
In which a young and hopeful medical practitioner receives an unexpected and mysterious visitor cloaked in mourning, whose urgent yet elusive request leads him into the bleak outskirts of Walworth to confront the grim realities of death and despair....
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Thursday · 35 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter V - Horatio Sparkins
In which the respectable Malderton family, eager to secure a suitable match for their eldest daughter Teresa, become enchanted by the seemingly genteel and eloquent Mr. Horatio Sparkins, whose presence at their social assembly stirs both admiration...
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September 16 · 46 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter IV - The Tuggses At Ramsgate
In which the respectable Tuggs family, newly enriched and eager to leave their grocer’s shop behind, embark upon a genteel seaside sojourn at Ramsgate, where their attempts at refinement are both earnest and amusingly fraught with social...
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September 15 · 27 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter III - Sentiment
In which we observe the fastidious and lavender-scented Misses Crumpton presiding over their finishing school for young ladies, where society’s notions of propriety and accomplishment are delicately paraded amid the comings and goings of hopeful...
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September 14 · 23 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter II - Mr. Minns And His Cousin
In which the fastidious and solitary Mr. Augustus Minns, a government clerk of exacting habits and aversions, is reluctantly drawn into the boisterous and convivial domestic sphere of his garrulous cousin, Mr. Octavius Budden, his wife, and their...
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September 13 · 45 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter I - The Boarding-House Chapter the Second
In which the curious domestic affairs of a bustling boarding-house are unfolded, introducing a motley assemblage of eccentric boarders, notably the hypochondriacal Mr. Gobler and the ailing, vain Mrs. Bloss, whose arrival kindles intrigue and quiet...
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September 12 · 39 min
Sketches by Boz Tales Chapter I - The Boarding-House Chapter the First
In which the tidiness and thrifty bustle of Mrs. Tibbs’s boarding-house on Great Coram-street provide a stage for an assembly of assorted boarders whose varied characters and ambitions intertwine amid polite social manoeuvres, music, and delicate...
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September 11 · 7 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter XII - The Prisoners’ Van
In which an ordinary street scene near Bow-street Police-office reveals the somber assembly of a crowd awaiting the arrival of Her Majesty’s carriage, a veiled sobriquet for the grim prisoners’ van conveying those entangled in misfortune to London’s...
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September 10 · 13 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter XI - Making A Night Of It
In which two city clerks, bound by most cordial fellowship and a shared resolve to ‘make a night of it,’ embark upon an evening of convivial dining, spirited toasts, and the pleasures of theatre and tavern revelry. Their lively escapades, marked by...
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September 9 · 10 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter X - Shabby-Genteel People
In which the peculiar figure of the shabby-genteel man is delineated with a gentle eye, revealing a species quite peculiar to London, caught ceaselessly between faded respectability and visible destitution. This lonely creature, clad in threadbare...
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September 8 · 14 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter IX - The Dancing Academy
In which a young gentleman of modest means, weary of his constrained existence, ventures into the peculiar world of a dancing academy nestled in the east of London, where he encounters a curious mixture of genteel aspirations and lively social...
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September 7 · 14 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter VIII - The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale Of Ambition
In which Miss Amelia Martin, a modest milliner of respectable if unremarkable talents, finds herself drawn from the quiet routine of her trade into the alluring world of amateur musical performance, inspired by the genteel society of her...
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September 6 · 14 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter VII - The Misplaced Attachment Of Mr. John Dounce
In which we are introduced to the quaint and steady routine of Mr. John Dounce, a retired glove-maker and quintessential “old boy,” whose predictable evenings at the tavern with his companions are leisurely punctuated by theatrical excursions and...
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September 5 · 9 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter VI - The Hospital Patient
In which the sombre and silent hours behind the hospital windows reveal the stark realities of human frailty and desolation, where pain and loneliness dwell in the company of strangers, and compassion vies quietly with the harshness of circumstance....
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September 4 · 12 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter V - The Parlour Orator
In which an evening’s stroll leads to a modest old-fashioned public-house where a stout, red-faced orator commands the parlour with his impassioned political rhetoric, stirring both admiration and contention among the assembled company. The scene...
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September 3 · 11 min
Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter IV - Miss Evans And The Eagle
In which a modest carpenter of neat appearance and humble means courts the industrious Miss Jemima Ivins, and they venture forth one lively evening to the bustling gardens and concert at the Eagle, entangled in the gaiety and occasional rudeness of...
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