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Charles Dickens: Hard Times (unabridged)

read by Anton Lesser

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (unabridged)

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (unabridged)

read by Anton Lesser

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  • Release date: 19th Oct 2011
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA0023
  • Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Charles Dickens: Hard Times (Unabridged)
Work length10:40:33
  • Recording Venue: Hats Off Studios, Oxford
Book 1: Sowing Chapter 1: The One Thing Needful
Track length2:23
Chapter 2: Murdering The Innocents
Track length6:31
'Very well,' said this gentleman…
Track length6:18
Chapter 3: A Loophole
Track length6:24
Thomas Gradgrind took no heed…
Track length4:44
Chapter 4: Mr. Bounderby
Track length9:19
'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind…
Track length6:32
Chapter 5: The Keynote
Track length8:13
'Why are you tearing about the streets…'
Track length4:32
Chapter 6: Sleary’s Horsemanship
Track length4:38
'By your leaves, gentleman!'…
Track length6:27
'Pray', said Mr. Gradgrind…
Track length5:51
'Squire!' said Mr. Sleary…
Track length6:42
'Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe,'…
Track length5:35
Chapter 7: Mrs. Sparsit
Track length7:17
'I'm not going to take him at once…'
Track length7:54
Chapter 8: Never Wonder
Track length6:13
'It's a great pity…'
Track length6:35
Chapter 9: Sissy's Progress
Track length8:13
'Did your father love her?'
Track length9:04
Chapter 10: Stephen Blackpool
Track length7:17
'Always a muddle?'…
Track length5:41
Chapter 11: No Way Out
Track length8:41
In the strength of his misfortune…
Track length4:59
Stephen, subsiding into his quiet manner…
Track length3:33
Chapter 12: The Old Woman
Track length7:53
She was gone by and by…
Track length3:41
Chapter 13: Rachael
Track length9:18
Out of what mystery he came back…
Track length8:47
Chapter 14: The Great Manufacturer
Track length6:08
All this while, Louisa…
Track length5:05
Chapter 15: Father And Daughter
Track length10:46
Removing her eyes from him…
Track length9:10
Chapter 16: Husband and Wife
Track length12:59
Book 2: Reaping Chapter 1: Effects In The Bank
Track length5:02
Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment…
Track length6:38
'Has it been a busy day, Bitzer?'…
Track length9:04
Here the visitor all unconscious…
Track length5:27
The inattention and indolence of his manner…
Track length5:43
Chapter 2: Mr. James Harthouse
Track length7:57
They went out without further discourse…
Track length6:20
'You are a singular politician…'
Track length4:51
Chapter 3: The Whelp
Track length4:03
'That's the past tense, Tom,'…
Track length6:56
Chapter 4: Men And Brothers
Track length5:52
The assembly was divided at this point.
Track length4:48
'My brothers,' said Stephen…
Track length5:22
Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall…
Track length3:19
Chapter 5: Men And Masters
Track length7:20
Stephen bent his head to the gentleman…
Track length7:40
Chapter 6: Fading Away
Track length5:07
Age, especially when it strives…
Track length6:53
'I have come to speak to you…'
Track length6:10
Stephen followed him out…
Track length5:00
It was but a hurried parting…
Track length5:36
Chapter 7: Gunpowder
Track length7:56
It was among the leafy shadows…
Track length6:07
'Mrs Bounderby,' said Harthouse…
Track length8:34
They walked on to the house…
Track length7:20
Chapter 8: Explosion
Track length6:37
Bitzer knuckled his forehead again.
Track length7:48
It soon appeared that if Mrs. Sparsit…
Track length6:33
Long after Louisa had undressed…
Track length6:44
Chapter 9: Hearing The Last Of It
Track length5:17
This again made the excellent woman vastly sentimental.
Track length7:18
She went with a heavy, hardened kind of sorrow…
Track length6:23
Chapter 10: Mrs. Sparsit's Staircase
Track length4:49
The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit…
Track length4:53
Chapter 11: Lower and Lower
Track length6:23
Next day, Saturday, Mrs. Sparsit sat…
Track length8:15
Mrs. Sparsit saw her out of the wood…
Track length4:25
Chapter 12: Down
Track length4:24
He moved, to support her with his arm.
Track length5:03
Book 3: Garnering Chapter 1: Another Thing Needful
Track length5:10
'My dear, I have remained all night at my table…'
Track length9:32
Chapter 2: Very Ridiculous
Track length4:46
It was impossible, even before dinner…
Track length6:07
'Well! If it should unhappily appear…'
Track length4:26
If she had asserted any influence…
Track length5:54
Chapter 3: Very Decided
Track length4:49
'Well, ma'am,' said Bounderby…
Track length4:56
The blusterous Bounderby crimsoned…
Track length7:50
Chapter 4: Lost
Track length6:32
'Who is it?', asked Louisa.
Track length8:40
Since his sheet-anchor had come home…
Track length4:56
Chapter 5: Found
Track length6:55
The spectacle of a matron…
Track length8:26
'I don't exactly know,'…
Track length3:59
Chapter 6: The Starlight
Track length5:36
The wide prospect, so beautiful…
Track length8:03
When all was ready…
Track length8:27
Chapter 7: Whelp-Hunting
Track length7:51
The first thing they saw…
Track length9:08
Mr. Gradgrind arrived within an hour…
Track length7:45
Chapter 8: Philosophical
Track length8:10
The other three sat up at the inn all night…
Track length6:38
Chapter 9: Final
Track length7:24
Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day…
Track length5:13
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