Excerpt from A Short Life of Charles Dickens: With Selections From His Letters

The following work is an attempt to give in a concise and compact form such an account of Dickens's life and work as will meet the requirements of that numerous class of readers whose curiosity about even so popular an author as Dickens can be satisfied within the modest limits of a handy volume.

The life of Dickens was eventful and varied in its activities to a degree very rare with men of letters, and a work which should include all the available materials, and at the same time comment upon them, would be very voluminous indeed.

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