Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730266to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chimes Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Trevor O'hare Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 20, 2023 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of 'Christmas books,' five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848). On 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 wicked by nature. His daughter Meg and her long-time fiancé Richard arrive and announce their decision to marry 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 they hardly have a right to exist, let alone marry...

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