Full name: Charles Dickens: His Life and Work

Author: Stephen Leacock Year: 1933 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Free books Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads FadedPage Amazon ISBNs: 9781550417678 1550417673

Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication, Leacock's biography of Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand and masterful examination of the man and his writing. That Leacock's biography of the great novelist was the first to explore the humor as well as the morality of Dickens' novels is only natural. He was and remains, after all, one of the most celebrated writers of humor in the world -- revered by critics and his fellow writers alike. (It was the American humorist Robert Benchley who said of Leacock: I have written everything that he ever wrote -- anywhere from one to five years after him.) In due time it will be known that the works of Charles Dickens represent the highest reach of the world's imaginative literature, Leacock wrote in Charles Dickens: His Life and Work. Of Leacock's masterful recounting of the life of Dickens, the New York Times wrote, There is wit in this book, and such sprightliness as only a Stephen Leacock could inject into it. Similar books: Wet Wit & Dry Humour by Stephen Leacock Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Watchmen by Alan Moore How Not to Die by Michael Greger Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Persuasion by Jane Austen