Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Author: G. K. Chesterton Release Date: August 20, 2007 [EBook #22362] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DICKENS *** Produced by Sigal Alon, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Charles Dickens, Circa 1840 From an oil painting by R. J. Lane. APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS BY G. K. CHESTERTON 1911 London: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd. New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO. All rights reserved [iii]CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Introduction vii II. Sketches by Boz 1 III. Pickwick Papers 13 IV. Nicholas Nickleby 26 V. Oliver Twist 38 VI. Old Curiosity Shop 50 VII. Barnaby Rudge 65 VIII. American Notes 76 IX. Pictures from Italy 87 X. Martin Chuzzlewit 90 XI. Christmas Books 103 XII. Dombey and Son 114 XIII. David Copperfield 129 XIV. Christmas Stories 140 XV. Bleak House 148 XVI. Child’s History of England 160 [iv]XVII.