Day Two Hundred and Seventeen
Oliver Twist Page: 427 Finished The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Page: 113 I enjoyed Chesterton’s Preface to Oliver Twist (which was at the end of the book) almost more than the novel itself. It is melodramatic, saccharine, and trite. But Chesterton points out positively, as Orwell pointed out negatively, that Dickens is [...]