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Fact: We UCLA undergraduates were forced to read this as part of the syllabus for the course WESTERN CIVILIZATION II, along with Marx, Freud, Goethe and Mill. (You see how rigorous my alma mater was/is?) It is the only Dickens I have read from cover to cover, though I have attempted A TALE OF TWO CITIES and GREAT EXPECTATIONS. This liberal defense of the working class is typical of Dickens, and Mill for that matter. Workers shall have their rights granted by the ruling class but not to the point where they take them of their own might. The proletariat must be educated lest it turn into a mob. If you wish to consult an Eminent Person to back me up read George Orwell on Dickens. Which is drier, Dickens' prose or his politics?