The Chimes

The Chimes

By Charles Dickens
Michael Caine
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Length2h 44m

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One New Year's Eve, Trotty, a "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… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length2 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
4Chapter III—Third Quarter
2Chapter I—First Quarter
5Chapter IV—Fourth Quarter
3Chapter II—The Second Quarter

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