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‘The Signalman’ (1866) is a short story by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). In the story, a practical-minded narrator meets a railway worker who has been seeing supernatural visions. The narrator doubts the man at first, but at the story’s conclusion a strange event makes him a believer.

Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's most famous novels and a powerful classic of Victorian literature. The story follows Oliver, an orphan born into poverty, as he moves from the cruelty of the workhouse into the dangerous streets of London, where innocence, survival, crime, and compassion collide. Through unforgettable characters such as Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes, and Nancy, the novel exposes the harsh realities of child poverty, social injustice, criminal exploitation, and moral corruption.

Experience two of the greatest novels of Victorian literature in one captivating collection. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens tells the unforgettable story of Pip, an orphan whose unexpected fortune sets him on a journey of ambition, self-discovery, and redemption. In The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins delivers a masterful tale of mystery and suspense.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A child asks for more—and a city reveals its darkest hunger. In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens transforms the fogbound streets of Victorian London into a haunting moral landscape of poverty, innocence, crime, and compassion. Drawing on his own...

Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Victorian crime with Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens. This captivating audiobook brings to life Dickens’ masterful detective tales, filled with intrigue, deception, and sharp-witted investigators.

Enter the world of timeless detective fiction with Classic Detective Mysteries and Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Vol. 4. Featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Copper Beeches alongside Charles Dickens' My Friend the Murderer and Hunted Down, this collection delivers classic mysteries...

Seven of Charles Dickens' best ghost and thriller stories, which have been widely read and beloved worldwide. This collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. These stories provide a wonderful introduction Dickens before embarking upon his long novels; after these stories, listening to his longer novels becomes even more of a pleasure. Perfect for students and teachers seeking an understanding and appreciation of Dickens, without the time to engage with his long novels.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if justice itself became a fog—creeping through London, swallowing lives, fortunes, secrets, and souls? In Bleak House, Charles Dickens creates one of his darkest and most ambitious visions of Victorian society. With fierce moral imagination...

Frank Pettingell reads pages from David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, Great Expectations and The Pickwick Papers.

An einem kalten, verregneten Winterabend sitzt ein junger, erfolgloser Arzt in seiner Praxis, als plötzlich eine mysteriöse Frau erscheint. Ihr Gesicht ist unter einem dichten schwarzen Schleier verborgen, ihre Stimme zittert vor Verzweiflung. Sie bittet den Arzt um Hilfe für einen Patienten – doch es gibt einen verstörenden Haken: Der Mann, den er retten soll, ist noch gar nicht krank oder verletzt. Was als medizinischer Notfall beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem psychologischen Albtraum über Schuld, Wahnsinn und das unausweichliche Schicksal.

In his final Christmas story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory.

Hunted Down is a detective story by Charles Dickens. The astute Sampson suspects that a certain Mr. Julius Slinkton who turns up in his office one morning is not all that he seems. As Slinkton crops up more and more frequently in Sampson's life, he realises that a monstrous crime is about to be committed. But a counter plot is hatched and the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Dickens excels again in his masterful portrayal of character and insightful description the society of his day.

Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens gathers Dickens’s most incisive explorations of crime and character, led by the haunting tale of Mr. Julius Slinkton—a man whose impeccable manners and professional respectability conceal a chilling capacity for manipulation.

"The Signal-Man" is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains.

A gripping tale of mystery and suspense, involving murder, forgery, and insurance fraud, from the pen of one of the greatest of all 19th-century English novelists, Charles Dickens. A retired insurance agent relates an episode from his career, a "romance of the real world", in which a cunning criminal is exposed and "hunted down" to face justice.

Dos jóvenes viajeros un tanto atolondrados hacen una parada en una casa que se supone encantada y entre bormas se ríen de esas tonterías. Cuando un antiguo reloj empieza a dar las campanadas se les aparece un anciano de ojos hundidos, al que los jóvenes al ver su aspecto con la cabeza ladeada y profundas ojeras, entre risas, no saben reconocer como lo que es: el fantasma de los ojos aridentes y hundidos, del que fue un hombre ahorcado.

修道城，一座古老的城市。它单调乏味，门庭萧瑟，到处可以闻到教堂地下墓穴中泥土的味道，到处遍布着历代教士修女们留下的坟墓痕迹……修道城，一座古老的城市。它單調乏味，門庭蕭瑟，到處可以聞到教堂地下墓穴中泥土的味道，到處遍布著歷代教士修女們留下的墳墓痕跡……

Mr. Sampson ist Bürovorsteher einer Versicherungsgesellschaft in London. Schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung im Kontor ist ihm Julius Slinkton unsympathisch, der für seinen Nachbarn Formulare für eine Lebensversicherung abholen will. Sampson kann nicht glauben, dass er sich in dem Scheitelträger so getäuscht haben soll. Er behält Slinkton im Auge.

El misterio de Edwin Drood es la decimoquinta y última novela del escritor británico Charles Dickens. Quedó inconclusa debido a su muerte súbita, por tanto la identidad del asesino sigue siendo objeto de debate, en lo que se designa hoy día como, «literatura droodiana» (Droodian literature), una larga serie de investigaciones, hipótesis, soluciones y finales de todo género alrededor de los posibles finales. El último libro de Dickens, que sin duda es una novela policíaca, puede también ser leído como la «culminación de temas y motivos de sus obras anteriores». 

Julius Slinkton tiene mucho interés en que le presenten al Sr. Sampson, director de una Compañía de Seguros de vida.Van a coincidir en un par de ocasiones, y no se volverán a ver hasta que casualmente se encuentren en una playa solitaria de Scarborough, por la que Slinkton pasea del brazo de una bellísima joven.