Charles Dickens
By G. K. Chesterton.
Description
"There is no better critic of Dickens living than Mr Chesterton" - T S Eliot. "[Chesterton is] perhaps Dickens' best critic" - Peter Ackroyd. "Readers seeking a short introduction to the Inimitable should try G K Chesterton's "Dickens"" - John Carey.Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic...He exaggerated when he had found a truth to exaggerate...In one sense truth alone can be exaggerated; nothing else can stand the strai...
ISBN(s)
0860120147, 9780860120148
