The Pickwick Papers Abridged

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Abridged.
"Digitally Mastered"--Container.
Compact disc.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring Clive Francis and Bill Wallis.
Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quite life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world?

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abridged submitted by camelsamba on August 5, 2015, 11:24am This BBC Presents audiobook is not a reading of the book, but a dramatization and abridgement. I actually read the book decades ago, as a high school student, but I didn't remember much except that it was funny. And long. (I went through a Dickens phase in high school. I probably thought it made me smarty-pants intellectual, because my sister was reading them at college.) The audiobook is not overly long - just 3 discs, just under 3 hours. Different actors do different characters and I did confuse them at times, but I was listening to this while doing other tasks so not fully attentive. If you want a good introduction to the book, or a reminder of some high points (as selected by BBC producers), you won't go wrong with this production.