Monday, February 06, 2012


Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.  No writer in the English language was more attuned to the misery caused by the Industrial Revolution, no writer could describe it as he could.  It was the alloy of humor that he added to every story that separates Dickens from other chroniclers of woe. It is a distinctive, irresistible English humor.

To Charles Dickens.