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Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (abridged)

Read by Sean Barrett

Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (abridged)
Barnaby, the vulnerable man-child, prompts some of Dickens’s finest writing. Overall, however, it’s not one of his best novels, although Sean Barrett’s magical voice somehow persuades you that...

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Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (abridged)

Read by Sean Barrett

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Barnaby, the vulnerable man-child, prompts some of Dickens’s finest writing. Overall, however, it’s not one of his best novels, although Sean Barrett’s magical voice somehow persuades you that...

The Observer

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Barnaby Rudge, one of only two historical novels by Dickens, deals with the ‘Popery’ riots of 1780. Read here by one of Britain’s most popular readers, Sean Barrett, (his reading of Bleak House was widely praised) in a useful 6CD abridgement. The recording is part of the extended Dickens collection offered in both abridged and unabridged form by Naxos AudioBooks. The only available version of the novel on audiobook.

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Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (Abridged)
Work length7:17:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
In the year 1775…
Track length6:18
At length Joe returned…
Track length6:34
'A strange story!' said the man…
Track length5:00
More than a full hour afterwards…
Track length3:34
Gabriel Varden went his way towards London…
Track length4:11
In the venerable suburb…
Track length5:57
As soon as the business of the day was over…
Track length5:16
They entered a homely bedchamber.
Track length3:54
Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called…
Track length4:03
Clear of the locksmith's house…
Track length7:19
Miss Miggs, having undone her mistress…
Track length4:26
It was on one of those mornings…
Track length5:38
There was great news that night…
Track length7:07
If Joseph Willet, the denounced…
Track length8:23
Joe Willet rode leisurely along in his desponding mood…
Track length4:18
At noon next day…
Track length6:29
Among all the dangerous characters…
Track length8:28
Gliding along the silent streets…
Track length4:22
Dolly Varden's pretty little head…
Track length5:43
In course of time they arrived…
Track length4:47
It was Hugh of the Maypole.
Track length4:58
Twilight had given place to night some hours…
Track length7:33
Mr. Chester sat up in bed next morning…
Track length6:25
Leaving the favoured…
Track length6:14
'And you're not surprised to hear this, Varden?'
Track length5:45
Alighting at a certain point…
Track length8:26
Evening drew on at last…
Track length4:44
Misfortunes, saith the adage, never come singly.
Track length3:47
One wintry evening…
Track length7:03
The more he thought of it…
Track length6:34
Before the lapse of many minutes…
Track length6:43
To surround anything, however monstrous…
Track length7:30
The secretary put his hand before his eyes…
Track length4:52
Mr. Tappertit sat and contemplated him…
Track length4:42
Little thinking of the plan for his happy settlement…
Track length5:09
As there was to be a grand parade…
Track length6:06
With that, he led the astounded locksmith back…
Track length2:26
Next morning brought no satisfaction…
Track length5:30
When they were very near…
Track length5:17
When the concourse separated…
Track length4:36
In a small English country town…
Track length7:14
How often on their journey…
Track length4:38
Uncertain where to go next…
Track length5:58
The mob was not without its method…
Track length5:18
With that, they stepped back again…
Track length4:01
They were among the first to reach the tavern…
Track length5:15
By midnight the streets were clear and quiet…
Track length5:43
The next day was ushered in…
Track length4:57
'Good day, master!'
Track length4:06
Rumours of the prevailing disturbances…
Track length6:00
Nearly all the time…
Track length3:35
The Maypole cronies…
Track length6:30
Barnaby leaned upon his staff…
Track length4:01
Left to himself again…
Track length4:42
It is necessary at this juncture…
Track length4:00
As the night wore on…
Track length5:47
The three worthies turned their faces towards the Boot…
Track length2:54
On that same night, Mr. Haredale…
Track length5:08
The prisoner, left to himself…
Track length4:08
All yesterday, and on this day likewise…
Track length8:00
Breaking the silence they had hitherto preserved…
Track length8:03
Although he had had no rest…
Track length6:45
When darkness broke away…
Track length7:18
While Newgate was burning on the previous night…
Track length5:15
Early in the morning his father came…
Track length7:53
Mr. Dennis, having dispatched this piece of business…
Track length5:21
All next day…
Track length3:33
The Black Lion was so far off…
Track length6:33
By this Friday night…
Track length5:28
Mr. Dennis, having been made prisoner…
Track length4:10
A month has elapsed…
Track length7:58
As the locksmith walked slowly away…
Track length5:18
The time wore on.
Track length8:01
On this same day and about this very hour…
Track length3:05
The Golden Key itself…
Track length8:06
That afternoon, when he had slept…
Track length5:27
Another month had passed…
Track length6:44
A parting glance at such of the actors…
Track length4:26

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Barnaby, the vulnerable man-child, prompts some of Dickens’s finest writing. Overall, however, it’s not one of his best novels, although Sean Barrett’s magical voice somehow persuades you that it is.
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