The Chimes (with biography of Charles Dickens and plot summary)

Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary.

The chimes are old bells in the church on whose steps Trotty Veck plies his trade. The book is divided into four parts named "quarters", after the quarter chimes of a striking clock. (This parallels Dickens naming the parts of A Christmas Carol "staves" – that is "stanzas" – and dividing The Cricket on the Hearth into "chirps".)