Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Charles Dickens: January 23d to March 8th<br><br>It is then to our most intimate and personal memories that these books and manuscripts and relies make their appeal. Critical prepossessions, if we have any, must fall from us like a superfluous garment when we enter the presence of Charles Dickens, just as a cloak is slipped from the shoul ders when we leave the hard struggle against the blast on the winter high way and come to sit at peace beside the blazing hearth. Readers all over the world have known this, but I like to revive here the recollection of that extraordinary initiation into the se.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.