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The Chimes

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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...


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Series: Classics to Go Publisher: Otbebookpublishing

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9783956761270
  • Release date: October 1, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9783956761270
  • File size: 623 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2015

Open EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9783956761270
  • File size: 622 KB
  • Release date: October 1, 2015

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OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
Open EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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...


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