The Chimes

Complete and unabridged, with 46 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Gustave Doré and Luke Fildes. A ticket porter waiting outside a church on New Year's Eve is told by everyone who matters — the alderman, the economist, the gentleman with the statistics — that the poor are a problem and he is part of it. Then the bells wake him. Dickens wrote it in Italy in a fury, weeping over the manuscri...