{"product_id":"charles-disckebs-chest","title":"Charles Dickens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“There is no better critic of Dickens,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewrote T. S. Eliot in 1927, “than Mr. Chesterton.” An additional century of literary criticism notwithstanding, that judgment still resounds with the ring of truth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which first appeared in print in 1906, offers compelling evidence in support of Eliot’s claim. An absorbing blend of biography and literary analysis, delivered in Chesterton’s inimitable style, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStudy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etreats of Dickens’ childhood and his early forays into writing; his successes and failures; his works and characters; and, most especially, his attitudes and approaches to seeing the world and man’s place in it and then setting that vision down in books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhimsical, well-read, and worth its weight in literary gold, Chesterton’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a testament worthy of its task: to appraise (and to praise) the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBleak House\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand creator of such characters as Oliver Twist and Mr. Micawber and Miss Havisham, and mediate that “ungovernable sense of life” which defines the world of Dickens.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422674514201,"sku":"CDIC","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/CD.jpg?v=1780462067","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/charles-disckebs-chest","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}