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The Battle of Life: A Love Story

The Battle of Life: A Love Story

Paperback

Series: Classic Charles Dickens

RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1721781862
ISBN13: 9781721781867
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 23 2018
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.12 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens. 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, coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. 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.

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