The Chimes - 9781530361755

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".)

• • Author: Charles Dickens, Jhon La Cruz
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 04, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 88 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530361753
• • ISBN-13: 9781530361755