The Lamplighter

Written by Charles Dickens

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Charles Dickens' brilliant comic adventure of a lamplighter, Tom Grig, who is called into the house of an eccentric astronomer who is searching for the philosopher's stone. He declares that the stars have foretold that Tom will marry the astronomer's niece and inherit the secret of the philosopher's stone which will make him the richest man on earth.

Unfortunately this good fortune will be time-limited, as the stars have also forecast Tom's death in exactly two months. But the niece, the astronomer's son and daughter, together with their maid and the laboratory assistant all have other ideas... with hilarious consequences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Dec 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781509478880

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

Reviews for The Lamplighter

[Mark Maciel · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Voice 0/5 - The voice that read the book was so auful that I had to stop listening.