Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Holly Tree the Seven Poor Travellers
It has become something of a fashion to decry the pathos presented in his novels by Charles Dickens, and, indeed, the best of his apologists cannot but acknowledge that the thinnest of partitions at times divides his sentiment from sentimentality. This is partly owing to the temper of the time at which he wrote - the early and mid-Victorian period being ones when literary sentimentality was looked upon as among the graces of a writer's style. If, however, we find strained sentiment and unreal pathos here and there in that wonderful series of books, contrasting with the sustained humour, the continual kindliness towards foibles and eccentricities which are but accentuations of individuality, there are by no means wanting stories where the sentiment is as real as it is beautiful, and the pathos is absolutely unquestionable if one may judge by the effect of its perusal upon the reader.
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