The Short Stories of Charles Dickens.

DICKENS, Charles. Selected and Introduced by Walter Allen.

Item Number: 122104

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971.

The Limited Editions Club edition of The Short Stories of Charles Dickens, selected and introduced by Walter Allen. Quarto, bound in three quarters leatherette over marbled boards, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Near fine in the original slipcase which is in good condition.

English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.