{"id":101030,"date":"2025-02-21T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/charles-dickens-the-battle-of-life-review-danecobain-com\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:28:00","slug":"charles-dickens-the-battle-of-life-review-danecobain-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=101030","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens \u2013 The Battle of Life [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-22241\">\n<div class=\"post-contents entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: The Battle of Life<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Fiction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Page Count\/Review Word Count<\/strong>: 116<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong>\u00a03.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>So far, this is the weakest of the Christmas novellas that I\u2019ve read, but that\u2019s not saying too much. Dickens is at his best when he\u2019s writing in shorter formats, at least for me.<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a reason why it\u2019s not a particularly well-known book, or even one that I\u2019d heard of before I started working through Dickens\u2019 back catalogue. The plotting is okay, but the characters are forgettable at best, and it\u2019s not one that I\u2019m likely to think about again now that I\u2019ve finished. It\u2019s not like The Bells.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3170878-the-battle-of-life\">Learn more about The Battle of Life.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Battle of Life Author: Charles Dickens Type:\u00a0Fiction Page Count\/Review Word Count: 116 Rating:\u00a03.5\/5 So far, this is the weakest of the Christmas novellas that I\u2019ve read, but that\u2019s not saying too much. Dickens is at his best when he\u2019s writing in shorter formats, at least for me. I think there\u2019s a reason why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[2922,4302,4306,4303,3333,3749],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-101030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-battle","tag-charles","tag-danecobain-com","tag-dickens","tag-life","tag-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charles Dickens \u2013 The Battle of Life [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=101030\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charles Dickens \u2013 The Battle of Life [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: The Battle of Life Author: Charles Dickens Type:\u00a0Fiction Page Count\/Review Word Count: 116 Rating:\u00a03.5\/5 So far, this is the weakest of the Christmas novellas that I\u2019ve read, but that\u2019s not saying too much. 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