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The Chimes
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Narrator
- Edith Harson
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Publish Date
- 1 June 2019
- Run Time
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Narrator
- Edith Harson
- Duration
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 June 2019
- ISBN
- 4057664179005
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
Synopsis
"The Chimes" is a story by Charles Dickens with strong social and moral messages. One New Year's Eve, Trotty, a poor elderly "ticket-porter" or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes are simply evil by nature. His daughter Meg and her long-time fiancé Richard arrive and announce their decision to marry on the next day. Trotty hides his misgivings, but their happiness is dispelled by an encounter with the pompous Alderman Cute, plus a political economist and a young gentleman with a nostalgia, all of whom make Trotty, Meg and Richard feel inferiority…
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