Author Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication in 1933, Leacock"s biography of Charles Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand, and masterful examination of the man and his writing.This biography was the first to explore the humor as well as the morality of Dickens"s novels and is filled with sharp commentary. Â