Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
G. K. Chesterton wrote these essays as introductions to an inexpensive collected edition of Dickens, and published them together in 1911. There is one for nearly every book, from Sketches by Boz, The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist to David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations and the unfinished Edwin Drood, along with the Christmas books, American Notes and the journalism. Chesterton defends Dickens's exaggeration and sentiment as the expression of a democratic, comic and deeply humane imagination, and he is full of paradox and quotable judgments. The essays complement his earlier full-length study of Dickens and are a good companion for anyone rereading the novels. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first essay is free.
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