"There is no better critic of Dickens living then Mr. Chesterton," T. S. Eliot declared; Chesterton's prefaces to Dickens's work, written for Everyman's Library between 1907 and 1911, contain some of his most vivid and penetrating criticism. These twenty-three essays are a landmark in Dickens criticism and provide lively exposition of Chesterton's own views and beliefs about literature, politics, and religion in Victorian and Edwardian England.