One year after his enormously successful A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens brought readers another supernatural Christmas season in The Chimes. On New Year’s Eve, Trotty Veck, an impoverished message carrier, laments the wickedness of London’s working class. He soon changes his views, however, when the goblin spirits of the church’s bells take him on a frightful journey to see the woes his fellow poor experience daily. In this signed copy and thousands of others, Dickens implores his readers to make the New Year a happy one for themselves and the many poor whose happiness depends on their actions.
