Download or read book Dickens at Work written by John Butt and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book we have examined several of Dicken's novels in the light of the conditions under which he wrote them. The surviving evidence of these conditions is extensive and has been generally neglected hitherto, but if we are right in our estimate of the importance of this material, it suggests more than one new direction in the criticism of his work..." - Preface.