01639cam a22003253u 4500 653 UtSlPG 20260610133034.0 m cr n 260607r1996||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 The Chimes : A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1996 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimes Release date is 1996-09-01 Transcribed from Charles Scribner’s Sons “Works of Charles Dickens” edition by David Price "The Chimes" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1844, the second in his series of Christmas books. Toby Veck, an elderly messenger, loses faith in the poor after reading grim newspaper reports. On New Year's Eve, he climbs to a church bell tower where goblin spirits show him disturbing visions of his daughter's future and the hardships facing working-class people. Through these phantoms, Toby must learn whether the poor are inherently wicked or victims of circumstance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Christmas stories Holidays -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/653 42774 42774