The Dickens World

Many people still read Dickens for his records and criticism of social abuses, as if he were a great historian or a great reformer. Any history, of course, is a splendid field for benevolence and love of justice and indignation; for there they require no action, no awkward politics: but history which is both truth and fiction too, dressed up with caricatures and jokes, set in every kind of devised excitement and pathos, allows uplifting emotions to play upon the past with a freedom that no professed historian could decently encourage. Dickens's novels are now historical documents of this kind; and many readers who would be bored by the reports of the Poor Law Commissioners or Garratt Suggestions for a Reform of the Proceedings in Chancery can look in Oliver Twist and Bleak House for pictures of their times, and contributions to the cure of the evils they describe.

Sorozatcím:

Oxford Paperbacks

Kiadó:

Oxford University Press

Kiadás éve:

1960

Kiadás helye:

London

Kiadás:

Második kiadás

Kötés típusa:

ragasztott papír

Terjedelem:

232

Nyelv:

angol

Méret:

Szélesség: 13.00cm, Magasság: 20.00cm

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