Chesterton’s full-length study of Dickens, distinct from his later prefaces to the individual novels, moves from the optimism of the Dickens period through the blacking-factory boyhood, the sudden fame of Pickwick, the American quarrel and the Christmas books. Throughout he argues that Dickens’s caricatures are truer than realism and that his popularity is a mark of his greatness.
Among the most enjoyable books ever written about Dickens. Download the free EPUB.