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Synopsis The book talks about Charles Dickens and his writings in candid detail illustrating him as a person and an accomplished writer of his age. It also carries critical notes on all his works and discusses his style of fiction vis-a-vis his contemporaries. Storytelling of Dickens is filled with humor and pathos of the characters, real and live, picked up from around the contemporary Victorian society, topped and spiced to suit his design of plots, which kept a whole lot of his readers engrossed. No wonder they enjoyed his episodic tales and waited eagerly for fresh issues of his monthly journals to show up on stands. The book is divided into four sections each devoted to address exclusive facets of the writer's life. Section-one is about Charles Dickens and his times which tells Dickens' growth as a man, writer and the story teller while focusing on his art, veracity, and moral purpose of his writings. His characterization, satiric portraiture of people, humour and pathos of situations and characters and style of prose. Section two carries criticism of his 24 important works ranging from Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers to Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey's Clock.Section Three is the critical assessment of his works at large, the moral critic his works in the light of class and social origin, his views on poverty and class distinction, facts and imagination without any depth of reason and his literary qualities irrespective of the content. The section also gauges his limitations and secrets behind immense popularity.Section four includes his important letters to Wilkie Collins and his referable speeches during his famous lecture tours. Thus the book is fine desk reference for a Dickens enthusiast.