The Battle of Life is a 1846 novella by Charles Dickens, his fourth "Christmas Book." Set in a village on a historic battle site, it uses the battle as a metaphor for life's struggles and lacks supernatural elements, concluding happily.
The Battle of Life is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books." The story, set in an English village on the site of a historic battle, uses the battle as a metaphor for life's struggles. It is notable for being the only one of Dickens's five Christmas Books with no supernatural or explicitly religious elements, and it concludes happily.
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| Back | The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. 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 Battle of Life 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. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it is not the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two respects: it has a non-urban setting, and it is resolved with a romantic twist. It is even less of a social novel than is Cricket. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one. It is one of Dickens's lesser-known works and has never attained any high level of popularity – a trait it shares among the Christmas Books with The Haunted Man. |
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