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  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In

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  • By: Charles Dickens
  • Narrated by: Michael Ward
  • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
  • 1.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Michael Ward
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The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

Narrated by Michael Ward.
Public Domain (P)2017 Michael Ward
Classics Christmas Winter Celebration Fantasy
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The reading sounds like a child.

Dreadful rendition, I love Dickens but had to give up after 20 minutes, I couldn't bear listening to this story being decimated any longer.

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