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Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son (abridged)

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Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son (abridged)

Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son (abridged)

Read by David Timson

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Dombey and Son is vintage Dickens and explores the classic themes of betrayal, cruelty and deceit. The novel follows the fortunes of Dombey, a businessman par excellence, who craves a son to inherit his enterprises. His family, and especially his daughter, the sweet and good-natured Florence, bear the brunt of his frustrations.

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Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son (Abridged)
Work length11:16:38
  • Recording Venue: The Square Recording Studio, Codicote, Hertfordshire
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room…
Track length5:58
'Mrs. Chick?' said a very bland female voice…
Track length3:42
'I am sorry to say, Louisa…'
Track length2:40
'I shall never cease to congratulate myself,'…
Track length5:41
'My good woman,' said Mr. Dombey…
Track length5:11
'I never saw such a melting thing in all my life!'
Track length4:44
Next night, she found him walking…
Track length4:34
The offices of Dombey and Son were within the liberties…
Track length5:38
'And now,' he said…
Track length4:31
Solomon Gills rubbed his hands…
Track length5:34
'So that Paul's infancy and childhood…'
Track length4:42
It happened to be an iron-grey autumnal day.
Track length4:58
'I am very glad to see you have so much feeling…'
Track length5:01
'Look! there's a pretty little lady come to see you,'…
Track length4:54
The old woman took her by the wrist…
Track length6:01
In hurriedly putting on the bonnet…
Track length4:47
Obedient to the indication of Mr. Clerks hand…
Track length5:08
'Let the servants know that no further steps…'
Track length4:24
Miss Tox inhabited a dark little house…
Track length4:30
It was on the very next day…
Track length4:55
On one of these occasions…
Track length4:32
Mrs. Chick and Miss Tox…
Track length5:35
At about noon Mrs. Pipchin…
Track length5:11
That spice of romance and love of the marvellous…
Track length5:05
'Captain Cuttle's at home, I know,' said Walter
Track length4:56
Major Bagstock, after long and frequent observation…
Track length5:37
But Mr. Dombey, without attending to what he said…
Track length5:58
Mrs. Pipchin had kept watch and ward over little Paul…
Track length4:56
Upon the Doctor's doorsteps one day Paul stood…
Track length4:34
'I shall see you soon, Paul…'
Track length4:53
At eight o'clock or so, the gong sounded again…
Track length4:20
'Oh Saturdays! Oh happy Saturdays…'
Track length3:17
Such spirits as he had in the outset…
Track length5:02
'Talking of Morfin,' resumed Mr. Carker…
Track length5:21
'It is of no service to me,' said the brother.
Track length5:57
Paul, pocketing his invitation, sat down on a stool…
Track length4:56
Paul now slipped away…
Track length4:44
Once, for a last look, he turned and gazed…
Track length5:41
The Captain, however, scarcely appeared to relish…
Track length5:14
Greatly moved by what he heard…
Track length4:27
He was visited by as many as three grave doctors.
Track length5:25
Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent…
Track length5:19
At first, when the house subsided…
Track length5:24
Did he see before him the successful rival…
Track length4:56
'Oh but Walter,' said Florence.
Track length4:12
'Mr. Dombey, Sir,' saiD Major Bagstock…
Track length4:48
During the bustle of preparation at the railway…
Track length2:45
There was a face - he had looked upon it…
Track length3:39
ThE Major and Mr. Dombey were walking arm-in-arm…
Track length3:05
The discrepancy between Mrs. Skewton's…
Track length3:26
On the next day but one, Mr. Dombey and thE Major…
Track length2:24
Mr. Carker the Manager sat at his desk…
Track length5:02
'Ain't you a thief?' said Mr. Carker…
Track length4:46
'Now, boy!' said Mr. Carker…
Track length1:50
Florence lived alone in the great dreary house…
Track length4:37
Arriving in good time abreast of the wooden…
Track length4:21
The Captain in his own apartment was sitting…
Track length5:08
'Bunsby,' said the Captain, striking home at once…
Track length4:15
The voice here went out of the back parlour…
Track length2:03
Sir Barnet and Lady Skettles, very good people…
Track length4:17
Captain Cuttle, though no sluggard…
Track length4:43
On mature consideration of this evidence…
Track length3:14
'Your most obedient, Sir,' said thE Major.
Track length2:05
'You must have found the gentleman a great resource,' said Carker…
Track length4:59
'Bluntness, Ma'am,' returned thE Major…
Track length3:19
'Major Bagstock, my darling Edith,' drawled her mother…
Track length3:45
Mr. Carker the Manager rose with the lark…
Track length3:45
Mr. Carker laughed, and turned upon his heel.
Track length2:52
Mr. Dombey having nothing else to say…
Track length3:12
Mr. Dombey, who had taken a stately leave…
Track length5:18
'This is an attack, I suppose,' returned her mother…
Track length5:02
Florence descended from the coach…
Track length5:20
Florence was, one day, sitting reading in her room…
Track length5:07
'My dear Dombey,' said Cleopatra…
Track length4:55
Dawn with its passionless blank face…
Track length4:23
So, from that day forward, for better for worse…
Track length4:50
The Captain got safe home again…
Track length5:53
The Captain glanced at the newspaper…
Track length5:01
Near to where the busy great north road…
Track length5:04
She was now opposite the house…
Track length4:57
If Florence could have stood within the room…
Track length5:02
'Whose child?'
Track length5:12
The dark blot on the street is gone.
Track length1:46
Florence had come down to the hall…
Track length1:46
But dinner was announced, and Mr. Dombey…
Track length5:19
It was his wife's. She had exchanged her dinner dress…
Track length5:40
'Mrs. Dombey,' said Mr. Dombey, advancing…
Track length5:27
They took her to pieces in very shame…
Track length2:30
Time, sure of foot and strong of will…
Track length5:34
Mr. Bunsby, who had a musical ear…
Track length5:49
To the moody, stubborn, sullen demon…
Track length4:06
'And now,' he thought, rising in his moral magnificence…
Track length5:49
They had now come up.
Track length4:03
All is going on as it was wont.
Track length2:20
A shadow even on that shadowed face…
Track length4:24
Mr. Carker nodded. 'Take care, then!'
Track length5:52
'You know,' said Mr. Carker…
Track length4:42
Mr. Carker signified his understanding…
Track length5:33
Florence, long since awakened from her dream…
Track length5:37
With the day, though not so early as the sun…
Track length5:29
Susan then bestirred herself to get her trunks in order…
Track length4:48
Arrived at her own door, she was alighting…
Track length4:36
'It is growing late,' said Carker, after a pause…
Track length5:05
'See where he goes!' cried one of these two women…
Track length5:34
Florence loved him still, but, by degrees…
Track length4:59
'Tell your sovereign master, Sir,' said Edith…
Track length5:04
When the evening had set in…
Track length5:12
She did not sink down at his feet…
Track length3:59
'Oh, Captain Cuttle!' cried Florence…
Track length2:39
'How de do, Captain Gills?' said a voice beside him…
Track length3:57
It was long before Florence awoke.
Track length4:59
'He was older than you, my lady lass,' pursued the Captain…
Track length4:08
She had no thought of him but as a brother…
Track length4:33
There was an empty room above-stairs…
Track length4:32
'Thank you, heartily,' said Walter.
Track length5:00
She raised her head, and spoke to him…
Track length1:21
What is the proud man doing, while the days go by?
Track length1:07
At the Counting House, the clerks discuss…
Track length5:17
'Oh, for goodness' sake, Misses Brown…
Track length5:18
There were two of the traitor's own blood…
Track length4:56
The time - an hour short of midnight…
Track length4:29
They both stood looking at each other.
Track length5:23
'All stratagems in love—' he interrupted, smiling.
Track length5:39
The lamps, gleaming on the medley of horses' heads…
Track length4:59
Unable to rest, and irresistibly attracted…
Track length4:33
The Midshipman was all alive.
Track length5:34
From that time, Miss Nipper never returned…
Track length4:07
Although I have heard something of the changes…
Track length6:00
And what are the young couple saying…
Track length4:20
Solomon puts back the letter carefully…
Track length4:49
Harriet Carker left her house, and entered…
Track length3:47
The old woman, whose wits appeared disorderly…
Track length4:29
Changes have come again upon the great house…
Track length4:49
In the dusk of the evening Mr. Toodle, being off duty…
Track length4:03
'And the ruined man. How does he pass the hours, alone?'
Track length4:02
When the day broke he was shut up in his rooms again.
Track length5:43
The grand half-yearly festival holden by Doctor…
Track length5:18
Mr. and Mrs. Toots withdrew to the Bedford.
Track length2:45
This awful demonstration…
Track length3:34
All this time, the Captain could not but observe…
Track length4:10
Florence had need of help.
Track length5:34
It chanced one evening, towards sunset…
Track length5:14
Their ride was six or eight miles long.
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Edith, breaking her silence, without moving eye or limb…
Track length5:59
'Oh Mama!' said Florence.
Track length4:39
And how goes the wooden Midshipman…?
Track length4:47
The Captain approves of this figure greatly…
Track length3:37
Mr. Toots, with the assistance of his pipe…
Track length3:48
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