摘要：The recent 6elebration this year of the centennial anniversary of Dickens's birth has occasioned a renewed general interest in his works, and has given rise to the publication of many reviews of his life, his writings and his genius. As the latest of the really great British novelists, Dickens occupies in a way a culminating position in the history of the development of that peculiarly English and modern literary form, the novel. His genius is so many-sided that to consider it as a whole is well-nigh impossible. One can only select aspects of particular interest from this or that point of view, study them individually and consider their relation to the whole.
