Published in 1911, here is a gathering of the prefaces that Chesterton wrote for more than twenty of Dickens’s novels. With quintessential Chesterton wit, the chapters display his supreme admiration for Dickens. He writes: “Dickens must definitely be considered in light of the changes which his soul foresaw. Thackeray has become classical; Dickens has done more; he has remained modern … he belongs to the times since his death.”
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific and influential English writer known for the wide-range of his talents, which included mysteries, fantasies, and Christian apologetics. A spirited Catholic polemicist, he was the author of the beloved Father Brown mysteries, as well as of the classic metaphysical thriller, The Man Who Was Thursday.
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