Dimensions
129 x 198 x 29mm
Dickens's three works for children are little known and two - 'Holiday Romance' and 'The Life of Our Lord' are very great rarities, seldom included in collected editions. Only 'Holiday Romance', stories supposedly composed by four children, is fiction. The other two were written with the education of his own children in mind: he never intended 'The Life of Our Lord' to be published and it did not appear until 1934. It presents a liberal, Unitarian Christ, the lover of mankind, and is an indispensable guide to the religious opinions which permeate Dickens's whole work.
'A Child's History of England', written so that his son Charley would not imbibe false notions about the romance of the past, is an expression of the views of the mid-Victorian man in the street, sublimely confident in the supremacy of Protestant values, and of the Anglo-Saxon character. Dickens cobbled together his narrative from popular histories, adding dialogue and romantic legends, and infusing the whole with his own powerful imagination.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with original illustrations, introduction, selected criticism and chronology of Dickens's life and times.
Three Everyman Classics in One Volume:
- 'A Child's History Of England'
- 'Holiday Romance'
- 'The Life Of Our Lord'
