Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

As most of Chesterton biographies, this is not a typical review of the life of a person, but a critical analysis of Dickens and his work, as in fact the title indicates. Dickens is one of Chesterton's favorite writers, as evidenced by the fact that he dedicated him two complete books: this one, published in 1905, focused on the writer, and "The works of Charles Dickens" on his work (1911). He also dedicated him several pages in "The Victorian Era in Literature" (1913), which I read recently. The first chapter of this biography addresses an important question: why are there no longer great men like Dickens?