The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens
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"The Battle of Life: A Love Story" by Charles Dickens is a novella published in 1846. Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live peacefully with their widower father until Marion's betrothed leaves to complete his studies. When Marion mysteriously disappears on the day of his return, her family believes she has eloped with a notorious libertine. Years pass before the truth emerges about Marion's disappearance and her true feelings. This Christmas Book explores
themes of love, sacrifice, and misunderstanding in a village built on the site of an historic battle. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 |
| Illustrator | Leech, John, 1817-1864 |
| Illustrator | Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 |
| Illustrator | Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867 |
| Title | The Battle of Life: A Love Story |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Life |
| Credits |
Produced by Chris Curnow, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Christmas stories, English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 40723 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-40723-4 |
| Release Date | Sep 10, 2012 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 830 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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