Charles Dickens 
The Battle of Life 

This annotated edition includes: Author Biography and Images.

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is an 1846 novel by Charles Dickens. It is 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.

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