Dickens-in the Flat.

This article focuses on the book "Charles Dickens. The Progress of a Radical," by T.A. Jackson. Jackson's thesis is that novelist Charles Dickens was a frustrated revolutionary. There is a value in such a thesis for the critical line on Dickens, basing itself on the "eccentricity" of his creations, has often stressed his powers of imagination above his realism. In the pleasure of a unique entertainment readers may lose sight of the Dickens who was a bitter commentator — perhaps the only Victorian novelist to be compared in the vigor of his attacks on social evils.