The Battle Of Life : A Love Story / With Illustrations By C. E. Brock Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles. The battle of life : a love story / with illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Hardback, VG. Decorated boards with gilt embellishments to front and spine. A few marks and small blemishes. Binding strong and square. Pencilled name to ffep. Small mark to half-title. Christmas gift inscription from 1915 to verso of frontispiece. Colour frontispiece. Decorated title page in red and black. 166pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. Top edge of page block gilt. Some dark marking to bottom edge. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. The Battle of Life: A Love Story is an 1846 novella, the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. It is one of Dickens's lesser-known works and has never attained any high level of popularity, in contrast to the other of his Christmas Books. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.