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The Battle of Life
The Battle of Life | Charles Dickens
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The Battle of Life is the fourth in Charles Dickens' series of Christmas classics that started with his beloved A Christmas Carol. In this tale, the main characters live in a rural English village that was the site of an historic battle. The battle comes to symbolize the struggles these characters face in their daily lives. This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere.
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This is not supposed to be a very popular Dickens' book, but I really enjoyed it. It lacks many elements of an ordinary Dickens' novel--no ghosts, no morality lessons. But the humor is top notch and I found myself laughing out loud. It may be because I am an attorney and the storyline about the attorneys was drop-dead hilarious. I recommend it for that alone. Otherwise, it is a bit of a sappy happy story, part of which takes place at

Texreader Christmastime. The theme: sisterly love prevails! And attorneys are a hoot!

Someone published this book as an annotated and illustrated version. The annotations are about all the criticisms (oh heavens, it doesn't follow the Dickens' model!) and the illustrations are completely unrelated to the story (see cover for example). Some illustrations are idiotic and childish. Please, skip this version (not tagged).

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I absolutely love Dickens‘ way with words! Even if he is describing someone of my profession (law) in such a dastardly way

#Snowangels #WinterGames

@emilymdxn

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Even when Dickens doesn‘t have supernatural elements in his Christmas stories, he still does.

#Snowangels #WinterGames

@emilymdxn

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My next Dickens‘ Christmas story.

#Snowangels #WinterGames

@emilymdxn

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Definitely not Dickens‘ best, but this story is sweet and has that Christmas element I was looking for. And there is a moment near the end when we learn something about Marion that is very heartbreaking.

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