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The Chimes
''The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In'', a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after ''A Christmas Carol'' and one year before ''The Cricket on the Hearth''. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
==Development history==
The book was written in late 1844, during Dickens' year-long visit to Italy. John Forster, his first biographer, records that Dickens, hunting for a title and structure for his next contracted Christmas story, was struck one day by the clamour of the Genoese bells audible from the villa where they were staying.
Two days later Forster received a letter from Dickens which read simply: ""We have heard THE CHIMES at midnight, Master Shallow!",〔 and the writing of the book began. Forster describes Dickens' intentions in writing ''The Chimes'' as striking "a blow for the poor".
Dickens returned to London for a week in December 1844 and gave readings of the finished book to friends prior to publication, to judge its impact. The artist Daniel Maclise, who had contributed two illustrations to ''The Chimes'' and attended two of these events, portrayed the reading of 3 December 1844 in a well-known sketch.
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