The Chimes (Christmas Books series Book 2)

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and A New Year In is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby Trotty Veck a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year''s Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man. The Chimes is the second in the series of Christmas books: Five short books with strong social and moral messages that Charles Dickens published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth The Christmas books include The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain (1848).