Dombey and Son: 7 (Oxford Illustrated Dickens) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192545078 ISBN 13: 9780192545077

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 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.

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Review:

"There's no writing against such power as this--one has no chance."--William Makepeace Thackeray

There s no writing against such power as this one has no chance. William Makepeace Thackeray"

Book Description:

A proud businessman is at the heart of this satire - Dombey and Son is funny, highly relevant and hugely enjoyable.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0192545078
• ISBN 13: 9780192545077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 900