Audio only
Length3h 26m
About this audiobook
The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books". The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it is not the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two respects: it has a non-urban setting, and it is resolved with a romantic twist. It is even less of a social novel than is Cricket. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (16K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreSelf-Help
Length3 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byLawrence Skinner
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 3, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Battle of Life
5Chapter 5: The Battle of Life
2Chapter 2: The Battle of Life
6Chapter 6: The Battle of Life
3Chapter 3: The Battle of Life
7Chapter 7: The Battle of Life
4Chapter 4: The Battle of Life
Oliver TwistCharles Dickens13h 59m4.0 (500.4K)$18 · $0.00
Ein Weihnachtslied in ProsaCharles Dickens3h 13m4.3 (8.2K)$9 · $0.00
The Story of London: Charles Dickens' Perspective in 11 Novels & 80+ Short Stories (Illustrated)Charles Dickens366h 19m4.6 (11)$1.99 · $0.00
A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)Charles Dickens74h 27m4.2 (184)$1.99 · $0.00
The Essential Dickens – 8 Greatest Novels in One EditionCharles Dickens143h 24m4.5 (1.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
A Child's History of England (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens33h 43m3.8 (3.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Dickens' Christmas SpecialsCharles Dickens80h 51m4.0 (235)$1.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books (5 Books in One Edition)Charles Dickens17h 27m4.2 (17.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Christmas Stories from Charles Dickens' Magazines - 20 Titles in One EditionCharles Dickens62h 25m$1.99 · $0.00
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens15h 27m4.2 (999.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Charles Dickens: 190+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens213h 7m$1.99 · $0.00
David Copperfield (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens83h 28m4.2 (315K)$1.99 · $0.00
Nikolas Nickleby (Gesellschaftsroman)Charles Dickens35h 56m4.2 (93K)$1 · $0.00
SCHWERE ZEITENCharles Dickens15h 18m3.7 (387.2K)$1 · $0.00
Three Ghost StoriesCharles Dickens2h 9m3.9 (2.4K)$6 · $0.00
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens20h 7m4.0 (899.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Oliver Twist (Musaicum Children's Classics)Charles Dickens19h 31m$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Christmas Books of All TimeCharles Dickens, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow11h 5m4.1 (65)$1.99 · $0.00
A Christmas Carol (Musaicum Christmas Specials)Charles Dickens4h 53m$1.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)Charles Dickens336h 1m4.5 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Learning to PrayJames Martin13h 24m4.5 (3.4K)$33 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
Spiritual AnatomyDaaji Kamlesh D. Patel9h 47m4.7 (319)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (385)$20 · $0.00
The Gospel according to Spiritualism (Translated)Allan Kardec14h 39m4.6 (3.9K)$5.70 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m4.6 (4.9K)$26 · $0.00
Life on the BridgeKaelynn Partlow5h 40m4.6 (1.1K)$24 · $0.00
Keep Your Love OnDanny Silk9h 4m4.6 (8.1K)$10 · $0.00
The Tao of Joy Every DayDerek Lin10h 24m4.6 (762)$20 · $0.00
UndividedVicky Beeching9h 2m4.6 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
HE CAN WHO THINKS HE CAN & OTHER BOOKS ON SUCCESSOrison Swett Marden5h 54m4.6 (1.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Level UpRob Dial7h 42m4.6 (3.3K)$26 · $0.00
Burn the HaystackJennie Young, PhD9h 30m4.6 (543)$29 · $0.00
ACRES OF DIAMONDS: Our Every-day Opportunities (Wisdom & Empowerment Series) (Annotated)Russell Conwell2h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Good InsideBecky Kennedy9h 55m4.5 (59.3K)$29 · $0.00
The Lost VoiceGreta Morgan8h 30m4.7 (285)$26 · $0.00
Stripped DownBunnie Xo8h 25m4.5 (32.9K)$26 · $0.00
You may also like
Sense and SensibilityJane Austen13h 9m4.2 (1.4M)$2.30 · $0.00
Sense & SensibilityJane Austen14h 25m4.2 (1.4M)$2 · $0.00
The Return of the Native (Annotated)Thomas Hardy17h 39m4.0 (74K)$2 · $0.00
Ties That BindBrenda Jackson12h 47m4.3 (1.6K)$32 · $0.00
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy36h 14m4.2 (1.1M) · 2692Free
Anna Karenina (Translated 1901 by Constance Garnett)Leo Tolstoy38h 33m4.2 (1.1M)$2 · $0.00
The Peacock SummerHannah Richell14h 26m4.1 (4.9K)$33 · $0.00
Adam BedeGeorge Eliot22h 17m3.9 (31.9K)$3.50 · $0.00
According to the Pattern (Annotated)Grace Livingston Hill7h 50m4.1 (484)$2 · $0.00
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy39h 12m4.2 (1.1M)$3.50 · $0.00
The Small House at AllingtonAnthony Trollope27h 16m4.1 (8.7K)$1.20 · $0.00
Scenes of Clerical LifeGeorge Eliot14h 6m3.8 (5K)$25
West Lawn, and The rector of St. Mark'sMary Jane Holmes9h 56m4.0 (25)$2 · $0.00
VagabondiaFrances Hodgson Burnett9h 28m3.5 (33)$2 · $0.00
Love's Golden ThreadE. C. Kenyon6h 38m$2 · $0.00
The Battle of LifeCharles Dickens3h 22m3.5 (4.5K)$3.50 · $0.00
DeerbrookHarriet Martineau24h 4m3.8 (770)$1.99 · $0.00
Neighbours on the GreenMrs. Oliphant16h 2m$2.30 · $0.00
By the Grand CanalWilliam Rivière6h 21m2.8 (37)$14 · $0.00
The Iron Woman (Historical Novel)Margaret Deland17h 18m3.8 (76)$1.99 · $0.00