The Chimes by Charles Dickens is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: ?The enormous vogue of A Christmas Carol has probably served, in a measure, to draw the attention of at least the casual reader away from the fact that Dickens wrote also four other Christmas books on a somewhat similar plan. I do not claim that The Chimes is worthy to stand beside the incomparable This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.