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The Life of Our Lord: With a New Afterword and Notes by Charles Dickens, edited by Tim Dalgleish and published by Wonky Octopus Press, reveals Dickens’s attitudes and aims as a novelist, deeply rooted in the moral creeds of Christianity. In this beautifully written, concise rendition of the gospel story of Jesus Christ—originally set down by hand for his children—readers discover the Unitarian-leaning faith that shaped Dickens’s imagination and worldview. This new edition brings together three key pieces of context: the foreword by Dickens’s daughter Mamie Dickens, the original foreword to the American edition, and a new afterword by Tim Dalgleish. Dalgleish’s notes explore Dickens’s Christianity, his relationship to church institutions, and the unique place of this work within his life and fiction. For Christians, Dickens enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Victorian Christianity and the moral imagination behind Dickens’s novels, this edition offers both the intimate text and the literary framing needed to appreciate its individual interest and purpose.