title: Christmas Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Nineteen
author: Charles Dickens
description: Eight traditional British and American pieces are well interpreted in comics form here. Florence Cestac adds twenty-first-century cartoon figures to Clement C. Moores poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, while Cynthia Martin draws an O. Henry story with expressions and costuming of the original writers period. Rick Geary is a spot-on choice to draw Fitz-James OBriens The Wondersmith, one of several pieces editor Pomplun himself adapted for this volume. The variety of art styles and solid selection choices make this entry in the Graphic Classics line essential for collections that include holiday books for teens and adults. Grades 7-12. --Francisca Goldsmith
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  The Chimes
  
  
  [CHAPTER I—First Quarter.](The%20Chimes_split_001.html#filepos1944)
  
  [CHAPTER II—The Second Quarter.](The%20Chimes_split_001.html#filepos57717)
  
  [CHAPTER III—Third Quarter.](The%20Chimes_split_001.html#filepos107331)
  
  [CHAPTER IV—Fourth Quarter.](The%20Chimes_split_001.html#filepos156559)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Chimes
  
  
  ### Charles Dickens
  
  
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  * CHAPTER I—First Quarter.
  
  
  * CHAPTER II—The Second Quarter.
  
  
  * CHAPTER III—Third Quarter.
  
  
  * CHAPTER IV—Fourth Quarter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Transcribed from Charles Scribners Sons Works of Charles
  
  
  Dickens edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
  
  
    
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I—First Quarter.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Here are not many people—and as it is desirable that a
  
  
  story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding
  
  
  as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this
  
  
  observation