Chimes Illustrated

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Charles Dickens: Chimes Illustrated (2020, Independently Published)

116 pages

English language

Published March 9, 2020 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
979-8-6129-7991-3
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A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In.

52 editions

Still very relevant to today

3 stars

I never knew before that A Christmas Carol was actually the first of five seasonal novellas that Dickens wrote in the 1840s. I only found out this year because I left deciding upon my traditional Christmas Day Dickens until rather too late in December so searched his works by word count and up popped The Chimes, first published in 1844. This novella shares some similarities with A Christmas Carol. Both are strong social commentaries on the times and the vast gulf between rich and poor so, in that respect, The Chimes is a very modern novel too. It was easy to recognise Jacob Rees-Mogg's attitudes to the impoverished working class in the words of Alderman Cute and Filer. The Chimes also employs supernatural intervention as a means to encourage a character to change their whole outlook although, in this story, it is poor messenger runner Toby Veck who finds his …