The Chimes: A Goblin Story

A Language-Illustrated Classic

By Charles Dickens, Michael Clay Thompson

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Order Code: 8649
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Class set order code: 8649S

The Chimes: A Goblin Story is the third book in the Dickens Trilogy of language-illustrated classic novels.

Description

The MCT edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story by Charles Dickens is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael’s “language illustrations”—close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page.

The Chimes: A Goblin Story is a short novel that was published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is one of Dickens’s “Christmas stories,” which are five short books that contain strong social and moral messages.

The chimes are the old bells in the church on whose cold and windy steps poor and elderly Toby Veck waits for jobs. He is a ticket porter, or messenger, for those rich enough to use his services—although they despise his poverty and those like him. The book is divided into four parts called “Quarters,” after the quarter chimes of a striking clock, and in each one we meet an array of characters, stereotypically good and bad. The book reveals the power and significance of Dickens’s message that, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are the pure of heart.”

Details

Curriculum
MCT Language Arts Curriculum
Strand
Literature
Series
The Dickens Trilogy
Ages
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects
MCT Language Arts, Novels
Formats
eBook
Pages
184
ISBN
978-0-88092-864-9
Order Code
8649