A spiritual successor to A Christmas Carol, Dickens' The Chimes follows a messenger, Trotty Veck, whose common life becomes extraordinary on one winter night. Like Scrooge before him, Chimes' protagonist has supernatural visions of times past, present, and future. Veck faces the choice between personal gain and the wellbeing of society at large. Like all titles in the Odéon Bilingue series, this title has text in both English and French. On the left side of the book, one will find the original English. On the right is a French translation aligned with the English text, paragraph-by-paragraph.