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A critical study of Dickens, intended "as a general justification of that author, and of the whole of the gigantesque English humour of which he was the last and not the least gigantic survival." No library descriptions found. |
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He praises the broad comic novels of the early period which, to be personal, I find his Dickens' weakest. But he can be relied for some unexpected insights. Dickens the world-famous and wealthy middle-aged man stilll tended to see life through the eyes of the impoverished pre-adolescent who spent his lonely evenings wandering through the wondrous but frightful london streets.