Charles Dickens

Excerpt from Charles Dickens To Swinburne's closest friends it is a cause Of real grief that his controversial writings should have given an entirely wrong impression of his character. The world, which can only judge of him from his written utterances, can form no idea whatever of his true nature. Most poets do their inner hearts full justice - more than justice - by their writings. Not so Swinburne. The greatest 'of English gentlemen, the bravest, the most chivalrous, will go down to posterity entirely misunderstood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.