Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K - 1911

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MP3 Audio CD. Both Dickens and Chesterton were literary geniuses, so a book in which one of them comments on the other can be only great. Indeed, Appreciations and Criticisms by Chesterton astonishes and amazes the reader with the deep insight into human nature that characterizes the oeuvres of both authors and is considered to be classics of Dickens criticism.The book was first published in 1911 and it is a collection of the prefaces that Chesterton wrote to almost two dozens of narratives and essays about other writings by Charles Dickens. The pieces in the collection include writings not only about Dickens? major novels, but also on his lesser known works such as his A Child?s History of England as well as essays about the travel accounts describing his journeys in America. In the short essays Chesterton analyzes the novels in terms of plot, characters, style, context as well as atmosphere and attitude and he also presents the background and the inspiration behind the novels and Dickens? other… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens LITTLE DORRIT In the time of the decline and death of Dickens, and even more strongly after it, there arose a school of criticism which substantially maintained that a man wrote better when he was ill. It was some such sentiment as this that made Mr. George Gissing, that able writer, come near to contending that Little Dorrit is Dickens's best book. It was the principle of his philosophy to maintain (I know not why) that a man was more likely to perceive the truth when in low spirits than when in high spirits. REPRINTED PIECES The three articles on Sunday of which I speak are almost the last expression of an articulate sort in English literature of the ancient and existing morality of the English people. It is always asserted that Puritanism came in with the seventeenth century and thoroughly soaked and absorbed the English. We are now, it is constantly said, an incurably Puritanic people. Personally, I have my doubts… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Both Dickens and Chesterton were literary geniuses, so a book in which one of them comments on the other can be only great. Indeed, Appreciations and Criticisms by Chesterton astonishes and amazes the reader with the deep insight into human nature that characterizes the oeuvres of both authors and is considered to be classics of Dickens criticism.The book was first published in 1911 and it is a collection of the prefaces that Chesterton wrote to almost two dozens of narratives and essays about other writings by Charles Dickens. The pieces in the collection include writings not only about Dickens? major novels, but also on his lesser known works such as his A Child?s History of England as well as essays about the travel accounts describing his journeys in America. In the short essays Chesterton analyzes the novels in terms of plot, characters, style, context as well as atmosphere and attitude and he also presents the background and the inspiration behind the novels and Dickens? other… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens LITTLE DORRIT In the time of the decline and death of Dickens, and even more strongly after it, there arose a school of criticism which substantially maintained that a man wrote better when he was ill. It was some such sentiment as this that made Mr. George Gissing, that able writer, come near to contending that Little Dorrit is Dickens's best book. It was the principle of his philosophy to maintain (I know not why) that a man was more likely to perceive the truth when in low spirits than when in high spirits. REPRINTED PIECES The three articles on Sunday of which I speak are almost the last expression of an articulate sort in English literature of the ancient and existing morality of the English people. It is always asserted that Puritanism came in with the seventeenth century and thoroughly soaked and absorbed the English. We are now, it is constantly said, an incurably Puritanic people. Personally, I have my doubts… Read More