The Old Curiosity Shop: 6 (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019254506X ISBN 13: 9780192545060

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.

About this title

Book Description:

'I bought it, read and loved it' Derek Jacobi

About the Author:

Charles Dickens (1812-70) had his first, astounding success with his first novel The Pickwick Papers and never looked back. In an extraordinarily full life he wrote, campaigned and spoke on a huge range of issues, and was involved in many of the key aspects of Victorian life, by turns cajoling, moving and irritating. He completed numerous volumes of journalism and fourteen full-length novels, of which The Old Curiosity Shop is fourth. It was an instant bestseller.

The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood are also published in the Penguin English Library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 019254506X
• ISBN 13: 9780192545060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 570