{"product_id":"2940148975434","title":"Two Appreciations of Charles Dickens","description":"Two Appreciations of Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eMy Father as I Recall Him, PLUS, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features\u003cbr\u003e • two complete books\u003cbr\u003e • illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY FATHER AS I RECALL HIM, by Mamie Dickens\u003cbr\u003eChapter I\u003cbr\u003eSeeing “Gad’s Hill” as a child.—His domestic side and home love.—His love of children.—His neatness and punctuality.—At the table, and as host.—The original of “Little Nell.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter II\u003cbr\u003eBuying Christmas presents.—In the dance.—The merriest of them all.—As a conjurer.—Christmas at “Gad’s Hill.”—Our Christmas dinners.—A New Year’s Eve frolic.—New Year on the Green.—Twelfth Night festivities.\u003cbr\u003eChapter III\u003cbr\u003eMy father at his work.—Rooms in which he wrote.—Love for his child characters.—Genius for character drawing.—Nicholas Nickleby.—His writing hours.—His only amanuensis.—“Pickwick” and “Boz.”—Death of Mr. Thackeray.\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV\u003cbr\u003eFondness for Athletic Sports.—His love of bathing.—His study of the raven.—Calling the doctor in.—My father with our dogs.—The cats of “Gad’s Hill.”—”Bumble” and “Mrs. Bouncer.”—A strange friendship.\u003cbr\u003eChapter V\u003cbr\u003eInterest in London birds.—Our pet bird “Dick.”—Devotion of his dogs.—Decision to visit America.—His arrival in New York.—Comments on American courtesies.—Farewell public appearances.\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI\u003cbr\u003eLast words spoken in public.—A railroad accident in 1865.—At home after his American visit.—”Improvements” at “Gad’s Hill.”—At “Gad’s Hill” once more.—The closing day of his life.—Burial at Westminster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, by G. K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003eFrom Introduction\u003cbr\u003e...There was a painful moment (somewhere about the eighties) when we watched anxiously to see whether Dickens was fading from the modern world. We have watched a little longer, and with great relief we begin to realise that it is the modern world that is fading. All that universe of ranks and respectabilities in comparison with which Dickens was called a caricaturist, all that Victorian universe in which he seemed vulgar — all that is itself breaking up like a cloudland. And only the caricatures of Dickens remain like things carved in stone. This, of course, is an old story in the case of a man reproached with any excess of the poetic. Again and again when the man of visions was pinned by the sly dog who knows the world,\u003cbr\u003e“The man recovered of the bite,\u003cbr\u003eThe dog it was that died.”","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178101293296,"sku":"2940148975434","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148975434_p0.jpg?v=1763711203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148975434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}