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The Battle of Life

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Lawrence Skinner
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"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. "The Battle of Life" 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.©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature Fiction Christmas Winter Genre Fiction Romance Coming of Age
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