Note 280d — VIII. LORD ACTON’S LIST OF THE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS
Reading edition
It has been complained of John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens that there is too much Forster and not enough Dickens. Yet it is the only guide to the life-story of the greatest of the Victorian novelists. Is most pleasant to read in the 2 volumes of the Gadshill Edition, published by Chapman & Hall.