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AuteurCharles Dickens

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The Chimes by Charles Dickens
First Edition

Publisher: Baker & Taylor Company
Size: 24 x 18 x 3 cm
Number of pages: 210
Weight: 900 g.

10 color plates illustrated by George Alfred Williams

Very good copy. Hardcover in original and beautiful dark green cloth with gold lettering and designs. The color illustration that is pasted to the front cover is in excellent condition. The book is in remarkably good condition, tight, clean and the colors are still brilliant. Very light wear to corners.

Summary:
The Chimes is the second of Dickens's "Christmas Books" Written in 1844 it came a year after A Christmas Carol and a year before The Cricket on the Hearth Set on a New Year's Eve, The Chimes is a story about self-respect and the consequences of our choices The main character, Trotty Veck is an inverse of sorts to A Christmas Carol's Ebeneezer Scrooge He is poor and thinks so little of himself that he threatens to destroy himself and his family Only through supernatural intervention can things hope to be set right.



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