The Seven Poor Travellers

Author(s): Charles Dickens

Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction

Narrators: Ruth Golding

Number of Chapters: 3

Length: 1 hour and 11 minutes

Language: English

One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens' visit to the ancient Richard Watts's Charity at Rochester. The second chapter is the touching story of "Richard Doubledick", which Dickens supposedly told the travellers, and Dickens' journey home on Christmas morning provides the short concluding chapter. (Summary by Ruth Golding)