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Contributor(s): Hornung, E. W. (Author)

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 ISBN:     ISBN-13: 9798597350684
Publisher: Independently Published
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" L (0.79 lbs) 310 pages
 
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"Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England on 7th June 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and influence much of his written works.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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