{"product_id":"charles-dickens","title":"Charles Dickens","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy G. K. Chesterton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“There is no better critic of Dickens,” \u003c\/b\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. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStudy\u003c\/i\u003e treats 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 class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhimsical, well-read, and worth its weight in literary gold, Chesterton’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament worthy of its task: to appraise (and to praise) the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBleak House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Pickwick Papers \u003c\/i\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\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton \u003c\/b\u003e(1874–1936) was an immensely prolific English writer, poet, and journalist. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he is best known for his influential works in apologetics, such as \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as his ingenious \u003ci\u003eFather Brown\u003c\/i\u003e detective stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685951702\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100037013871,"sku":"978-1685951702","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--79815.jpg?v=1781124812","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/charles-dickens","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}