#The Chimes

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

For this holiday season Publishers’ Binding Thursday post, this is Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens, published by Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, WI in 1940. The book features a weirdly unseasonal publishers’ binding featuring pink and white illustrations on a cream/yellowish book cloth. Unfortunately our copy is missing the front of its dust jacket, but at least the binding remains largely undamaged. 

Included in the book are three stories by Charles Dickens: “A Christmas Carol,” “The Chimes,” and “The Cricket on the Hearth.” Only “A Christmas Carol” is illustrated. The endpapers are truly the star of this book, though, and feature a lovely illustration of the town getting ready for Christmas. The illustrations are by Milwaukee artist and cartoonist Erwin Louis Hess (1906-1999) who had just started working as a comic book artist for Dell Publicaotions at this time.

We hope all your Christmas preparations are going smoothly and that all will have a happy holiday!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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A Covid reading round-up - Part Two!

Following on from my earlier post, I want today to share some thoughts on an author who was a bit of a lifeline during the Covid period – Charles Dickens! He is, of course, a long-time favourite writer of mine, and while I was in the early stages of the virus and feeling rubbish I was able to at least enjoy a really interesting two part documentary on Sky Arts which explored his time in Italy and…

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Ring in Christmas with The Chimes — Charles Dickens audio from Big Finish

Ring in Christmas with The Chimes — Charles Dickens audio from Big Finish

Toby Jones stars in a feature-length full-cast audio drama adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘lost’ Christmas story, The Chimes, available to download from the Big Finish website for the first time. Who doesn’t love a ghost story at Christmas? The Chimes is Charles Dickens’ follow-up festive story to his much-loved novel A Christmas Carol and, though equally popular in its day, has since become…

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I know that our inheritance is held in store for us by Time.  I know there is a sea of Time to rise one day, before which all who wrong us or oppress us will be swept away like leaves.  I see it, on the flow!  I know that we must trust and hope, and neither doubt ourselves, nor doubt the good in one another.

-The Chimes - Charles Dickens

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December 2023 reading - so how did that go??? 😬

At the end of any December, I tend to do one big round up post of the month and the year, together with plans for the new year; however, because of the hand fate dealt us this Christmas (COVID!) I’ve decided to subdivide and do some shorter posts! So here’s the first one, a brief look at what I read in December 2023 – and brief is the right word, because my reading has gone from the sublime in…