Toby Veck, an old London porter known as Trotty, waits for errands beside the church whose bells he loves, while his daughter Meg hopes to marry. Wealthy men lecture him that the poor have no right to exist, and on New Year’s Eve he climbs the bell tower, where the spirits of the chimes show him what may lie ahead.
Dickens’s second Christmas book, after A Christmas Carol, and his angriest plea for the poor. Download the free EPUB.