The Battle of Life
by Charles Dickens
Two sisters love the same man, and on the night he comes home the younger one vanishes. The fourth of the five Christmas books, the only one with no ghost in it, and the one Dickens himself was least happy with: he said he had not room to tell it properly.
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ONCE upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood…Charles Dickens, The Battle of LifeStart reading The Battle of Life free →
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The quiet one of the five, about a sacrifice nobody is told about for six years. Three parts, no ghosts.
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