The Chimes

The Chimes
Title page of first edition, 1844 with engraving by F.P. Becker
AuthorCharles Dickens
Original titleThe Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
IllustratorDaniel Maclise
Richard Doyle
John Leech
William Clarkson Stanfield
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovella
PublisherChapman & Hall
Publication date
1844
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
Pages175 pp
Preceded byA Christmas Carol 
Followed byThe Cricket on the Hearth 

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, commonly referred to as The Chimes, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books", five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).