This book is for the lover of Dickens and of London, alike. London, its life and its stones, has ever been immortalized by authors and artists, but more than all else, the city has been a part of the very life and inspiration of those who have limned its virtues, its joys, and its sorrows, —from the days of blithe Dan Chaucer to those of the latest west-end society novelist. London, as has been truly said, is a "mighty mingling", and no one has breathed more than Dickens the spirit of its constantly shifting and glimmering world of passion and poverty.
