Charles Dickens, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise
The Battle of Life
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(BompaCrazy.com Dec. 18, 2011)
-Illustrations by John Leech, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, Daniel Maclise, and Richard Doyle.
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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", 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 a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.
"Battle" is noteworthy in that it is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements.
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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", 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 a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.
"Battle" is noteworthy in that it is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements.
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