The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
The magnificent Richard Armitage (Hamlet: King of Denmark: A Novel) performs The Chimes by Charles Dickens. This classic story is the second in a series of five Christmas books Dickens was commissioned to write - beginning with A Christmas Carol.
The magnificent Richard Armitage (Hamlet: King of Denmark: A Novel) performs The Chimes by Charles Dickens. This classic story is the second in a series of five Christmas books Dickens was commissioned to write - beginning with A Christmas Carol.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781522613992 (1522613994)
Publish date: 2016-05-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Edition language: English
by Charles Dickens This was the first of Dickens' Christmas stories and predates A Christmas Carol by a year. It was also adapted to a stage play. It's rather typical of some of Dickens' earlier writings where there is a lot of dialogue with too many characters and it can get confusing as to wha...
Well, well -- nothing like ringing in the New Year (albeit a day early) with Charles Dickens: What he did for Christmas in the story about the old miser Scrooge, he did again a year later for New Year's Eve with this story; which is, however, quite a bit darker than A Christmas Carol. Once again, a...
Like many other Dickens novels, I felt like I was dragging myself through this book. It felt sort of like trying to read The Professor after enjoying Villette. For everyone other than the 1 person who understands that reference, I mean to say that this book will disappoint if you're looking for anot...