Charles Dickens: His Life and Work
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Book Details
| Title: | Charles Dickens: His Life and Work | ||||||||||
| Author: |
| ||||||||||
| Published: | 1933 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Peter Davies | ||||||||||
| Tags: | biography, non-fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | To say that this is Dickens bovrilised and peptonised—it is, as it were, all the biographies and Dickensiana subjected to some Chicagoan literary sausage-machine—is not to belittle Professor Leacock. The professor as usual is scarifying on schools and colleges. He is crisp, concise, dramatic. The book is a miracle of compression. It's the quantity plus quality of Dickens’s work which makes his biographer gasp, and its universal appeal. His books have been read for their own sake from first to last. In the sheer comprehensiveness of his work “no writer has ever equalled or approached it. None ever will. The time is past.” For sense and sensibility, and the true feeling or sensation of Dickens, have given way before sensationalism. “It is a world of flickering shadows tossed by electric currents, of a babel of voices on the harassed air...” Still there is hope while such as Professor Leacock remain to correct us. —The Bookman's Table, January 1934 [Suggest a different description.] |
||||||||||
| Downloads: | 100 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 206  |
Author Bio for Leacock, Stephen Butler
Stephen Butler Leacock (December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944) was a Canadian political scientist, and writer and humourist. He was extremely popular around the world, indeed, between 1915 and 1925 he was the most popular and widely read humourist in the English-speaking world.
Perhaps his most famous books were Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, two of his thirty-five books of humour. He wrote twenty-eight books of non-fiction, his first was the famous Elements of Political Science.
Available Formats
No book directory. Upload has not been completed.This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it.
Here at FadedPage and our companion site Distributed Proofreaders Canada, we pride ourselves on producing the best ebooks you can find. Please tell us about any errors you have found in this book, or in the information on this page about this book.