The Battle of Life


The Battle of Life
Cover of the first edition of The Battle of Life from 1846.
AuthorCharles Dickens
Original titleThe Battle of Life: A Love Story
IllustratorCharles Green
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovella
PublisherBradbury and Evans
Publication date
1846
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages116 pp
Preceded byThe Cricket on the Hearth 
Followed byThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 
TextThe Battle of Life at Wikisource

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is an 1846 novella by Charles Dickens.[1] It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and is followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.

  1. ^ Glancy, Ruth (1988). "The Shaping of "The Battle of Life": Dickens' Manuscript Revisions". Dickens Studies Annual. 17: 67–89. ISSN 0084-9812.