There's still time! Find the perfect Father's Day gift with store pickup | Shop NowThere's still time! Find the perfect Father's Day gift with store pickup | Shop Now
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study.(1906), by G.K. Chesterton

By G. K. Chesterton
Paperback
$7.99
By G. K. Chesterton
Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Formats
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE YOUTH OF DICKENS There are popular phrases so picturesque that even when they are intentionally funny they are unintentionally poetical. I remember, to take one instance out of many, hearing a heated Secularist in Hyde Park apply to some parson or other the exquisite expression, " a sky-pilot." Subsequent inquiry has taught me that the term is intended to be comic and even contemptuous; but in that first freshness of it I went home repeating it to myself l...

Categories

FictionFiction SubjectsLiterary Styles & Movements - FictionFiction - Other