| The Chimes Contributor(s): La Cruz, Jhon (Editor), Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530361753 ISBN-13: 9781530361755 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.51 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books" five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. The chimes are old bells in the church on whose steps Trotty Veck plies his trade. The book is divided into four parts named "quarters", after the quarter chimes of a striking clock. (This parallels Dickens naming the parts of A Christmas Carol "staves" - that is "stanzas" - and dividing The Cricket on the Hearth into "chirps".) |