DICKENS, C.: Dombey and Son (Abridged)
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Author(s): Dickens, Charles
Reader(s): Timson, David
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA899012
Barcode: 9789626349908
Release Date: 09/2009

DICKENS, C.: Dombey and Son (Abridged)

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.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Dickens, Charles - Author
Timson, David (Reader)
1Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room…05:59
Timson, David (Reader)
2'Mrs. Chick?' said a very bland female voice…03:42
Timson, David (Reader)
3'I am sorry to say, Louisa…'02:39
Timson, David (Reader)
4'I shall never cease to congratulate myself,'…05:41
Timson, David (Reader)
5'My good woman,' said Mr. Dombey…05:11
Timson, David (Reader)
6'I never saw such a melting thing in all my life!'04:44
Timson, David (Reader)
7Next night, she found him walking…04:33
Timson, David (Reader)
8The offices of Dombey and Son were within the liberties…05:38
Timson, David (Reader)
9'And now,' he said…04:31
Timson, David (Reader)
10Solomon Gills rubbed his hands…05:33
Timson, David (Reader)
11'So that Paul's infancy and childhood…'04:42
Timson, David (Reader)
12It happened to be an iron-grey autumnal day.04:58
Timson, David (Reader)
13'I am very glad to see you have so much feeling…'05:00
Timson, David (Reader)
14'Look! there's a pretty little lady come to see you,'…04:54
Timson, David (Reader)
15The old woman took her by the wrist…06:00
Timson, David (Reader)
16In hurriedly putting on the bonnet…04:49
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 2
1Obedient to the indication of Mr. Clerks hand…05:09
Timson, David (Reader)
2'Let the servants know that no further steps…'04:24
Timson, David (Reader)
3Miss Tox inhabited a dark little house…04:30
Timson, David (Reader)
4It was on the very next day…04:55
Timson, David (Reader)
5On one of these occasions…04:32
Timson, David (Reader)
6Mrs. Chick and Miss Tox…05:35
Timson, David (Reader)
7At about noon Mrs. Pipchin…05:10
Timson, David (Reader)
8That spice of romance and love of the marvellous…05:05
Timson, David (Reader)
9'Captain Cuttle's at home, I know,' said Walter04:55
Timson, David (Reader)
10Major Bagstock, after long and frequent observation…05:36
Timson, David (Reader)
11But Mr. Dombey, without attending to what he said…05:57
Timson, David (Reader)
12Mrs. Pipchin had kept watch and ward over little Paul…04:56
Timson, David (Reader)
13Upon the Doctor's doorsteps one day Paul stood…04:33
Timson, David (Reader)
14'I shall see you soon, Paul…'04:53
Timson, David (Reader)
15At eight o'clock or so, the gong sounded again…04:20
Timson, David (Reader)
16'Oh Saturdays! Oh happy Saturdays…'03:19
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 3
1Such spirits as he had in the outset…05:02
Timson, David (Reader)
2'Talking of Morfin,' resumed Mr. Carker…05:21
Timson, David (Reader)
3'It is of no service to me,' said the brother.05:57
Timson, David (Reader)
4Paul, pocketing his invitation, sat down on a stool…04:55
Timson, David (Reader)
5Paul now slipped away…04:43
Timson, David (Reader)
6Once, for a last look, he turned and gazed…05:40
Timson, David (Reader)
7The Captain, however, scarcely appeared to relish…05:14
Timson, David (Reader)
8Greatly moved by what he heard…04:27
Timson, David (Reader)
9He was visited by as many as three grave doctors.05:25
Timson, David (Reader)
10Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent…05:19
Timson, David (Reader)
11At first, when the house subsided…05:24
Timson, David (Reader)
12Did he see before him the successful rival…04:56
Timson, David (Reader)
13'Oh but Walter,' said Florence.04:12
Timson, David (Reader)
14'Mr. Dombey, Sir,' saiD Major Bagstock…04:48
Timson, David (Reader)
15During the bustle of preparation at the railway…02:44
Timson, David (Reader)
16There was a face - he had looked upon it…03:41
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 4
1ThE Major and Mr. Dombey were walking arm-in-arm…03:05
Timson, David (Reader)
2The discrepancy between Mrs. Skewton's…03:25
Timson, David (Reader)
3On the next day but one, Mr. Dombey and thE Major…02:23
Timson, David (Reader)
4Mr. Carker the Manager sat at his desk…05:01
Timson, David (Reader)
5'Ain't you a thief?' said Mr. Carker…04:45
Timson, David (Reader)
6'Now, boy!' said Mr. Carker…01:49
Timson, David (Reader)
7Florence lived alone in the great dreary house…04:36
Timson, David (Reader)
8Arriving in good time abreast of the wooden…04:20
Timson, David (Reader)
9The Captain in his own apartment was sitting…05:07
Timson, David (Reader)
10'Bunsby,' said the Captain, striking home at once…04:15
Timson, David (Reader)
11The voice here went out of the back parlour…02:02
Timson, David (Reader)
12Sir Barnet and Lady Skettles, very good people…04:17
Timson, David (Reader)
13Captain Cuttle, though no sluggard…04:43
Timson, David (Reader)
14On mature consideration of this evidence…03:13
Timson, David (Reader)
15'Your most obedient, Sir,' said thE Major.02:05
Timson, David (Reader)
16'You must have found the gentleman a great resource,' said Carker…04:59
Timson, David (Reader)
17'Bluntness, Ma'am,' returned thE Major…03:18
Timson, David (Reader)
18'Major Bagstock, my darling Edith,' drawled her mother…03:44
Timson, David (Reader)
19Mr. Carker the Manager rose with the lark…03:45
Timson, David (Reader)
20Mr. Carker laughed, and turned upon his heel.02:51
Timson, David (Reader)
21Mr. Dombey having nothing else to say…03:14
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 5
1Mr. Dombey, who had taken a stately leave…05:19
Timson, David (Reader)
2'This is an attack, I suppose,' returned her mother…05:01
Timson, David (Reader)
3Florence descended from the coach…05:19
Timson, David (Reader)
4Florence was, one day, sitting reading in her room…05:07
Timson, David (Reader)
5'My dear Dombey,' said Cleopatra…04:54
Timson, David (Reader)
6Dawn with its passionless blank face…04:23
Timson, David (Reader)
7So, from that day forward, for better for worse…04:50
Timson, David (Reader)
8The Captain got safe home again…05:53
Timson, David (Reader)
9The Captain glanced at the newspaper…05:01
Timson, David (Reader)
10Near to where the busy great north road…05:04
Timson, David (Reader)
11She was now opposite the house…04:57
Timson, David (Reader)
12If Florence could have stood within the room…05:02
Timson, David (Reader)
13'Whose child?'05:12
Timson, David (Reader)
14The dark blot on the street is gone.01:46
Timson, David (Reader)
15Florence had come down to the hall…01:48
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 6
1But dinner was announced, and Mr. Dombey…05:19
Timson, David (Reader)
2It was his wife's. She had exchanged her dinner dress…05:40
Timson, David (Reader)
3'Mrs. Dombey,' said Mr. Dombey, advancing…05:27
Timson, David (Reader)
4They took her to pieces in very shame…02:30
Timson, David (Reader)
5Time, sure of foot and strong of will…05:33
Timson, David (Reader)
6Mr. Bunsby, who had a musical ear…05:49
Timson, David (Reader)
7To the moody, stubborn, sullen demon…04:06
Timson, David (Reader)
8'And now,' he thought, rising in his moral magnificence…05:49
Timson, David (Reader)
9They had now come up.04:02
Timson, David (Reader)
10All is going on as it was wont.02:20
Timson, David (Reader)
11A shadow even on that shadowed face…04:23
Timson, David (Reader)
12Mr. Carker nodded. 'Take care, then!'05:52
Timson, David (Reader)
13'You know,' said Mr. Carker…04:42
Timson, David (Reader)
14Mr. Carker signified his understanding…05:32
Timson, David (Reader)
15Florence, long since awakened from her dream…05:36
Timson, David (Reader)
16With the day, though not so early as the sun…05:31
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 7
1Susan then bestirred herself to get her trunks in order…04:49
Timson, David (Reader)
2Arrived at her own door, she was alighting…04:36
Timson, David (Reader)
3'It is growing late,' said Carker, after a pause…05:05
Timson, David (Reader)
4'See where he goes!' cried one of these two women…05:34
Timson, David (Reader)
5Florence loved him still, but, by degrees…04:58
Timson, David (Reader)
6'Tell your sovereign master, Sir,' said Edith…05:04
Timson, David (Reader)
7When the evening had set in…05:12
Timson, David (Reader)
8She did not sink down at his feet…03:59
Timson, David (Reader)
9'Oh, Captain Cuttle!' cried Florence…02:38
Timson, David (Reader)
10'How de do, Captain Gills?' said a voice beside him…03:57
Timson, David (Reader)
11It was long before Florence awoke.04:58
Timson, David (Reader)
12'He was older than you, my lady lass,' pursued the Captain…04:07
Timson, David (Reader)
13She had no thought of him but as a brother…04:33
Timson, David (Reader)
14There was an empty room above-stairs…04:32
Timson, David (Reader)
15'Thank you, heartily,' said Walter.05:00
Timson, David (Reader)
16She raised her head, and spoke to him…01:21
Timson, David (Reader)
17What is the proud man doing, while the days go by?01:09
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 8
1At the Counting House, the clerks discuss…05:18
Timson, David (Reader)
2'Oh, for goodness' sake, Misses Brown…05:18
Timson, David (Reader)
3There were two of the traitor's own blood…04:56
Timson, David (Reader)
4The time - an hour short of midnight…04:29
Timson, David (Reader)
5They both stood looking at each other.05:23
Timson, David (Reader)
6'All stratagems in love—' he interrupted, smiling.05:39
Timson, David (Reader)
7The lamps, gleaming on the medley of horses' heads…04:59
Timson, David (Reader)
8Unable to rest, and irresistibly attracted…04:32
Timson, David (Reader)
9The Midshipman was all alive.05:34
Timson, David (Reader)
10From that time, Miss Nipper never returned…04:06
Timson, David (Reader)
11Although I have heard something of the changes…06:00
Timson, David (Reader)
12And what are the young couple saying…04:20
Timson, David (Reader)
13Solomon puts back the letter carefully…04:48
Timson, David (Reader)
14Harriet Carker left her house, and entered…03:46
Timson, David (Reader)
15The old woman, whose wits appeared disorderly…04:31
Timson, David (Reader)
Disc 9
1Changes have come again upon the great house…04:49
Timson, David (Reader)
2In the dusk of the evening Mr. Toodle, being off duty…04:03
Timson, David (Reader)
3'And the ruined man. How does he pass the hours, alone?'04:02
Timson, David (Reader)
4When the day broke he was shut up in his rooms again.05:43
Timson, David (Reader)
5The grand half-yearly festival holden by Doctor…05:18
Timson, David (Reader)
6Mr. and Mrs. Toots withdrew to the Bedford.02:45
Timson, David (Reader)
7This awful demonstration…03:33
Timson, David (Reader)
8All this time, the Captain could not but observe…04:10
Timson, David (Reader)
9Florence had need of help.05:33
Timson, David (Reader)
10It chanced one evening, towards sunset…04:14
Timson, David (Reader)
11Their ride was six or eight miles long.04:08
Timson, David (Reader)
12Edith, breaking her silence, without moving eye or limb…05:58
Timson, David (Reader)
13'Oh Mama!' said Florence.04:39
Timson, David (Reader)
14And how goes the wooden Midshipman…?04:47
Timson, David (Reader)
15The Captain approves of this figure greatly…03:37
Timson, David (Reader)
16Mr. Toots, with the assistance of his pipe…03:50
Timson, David (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 11:15:15

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