Dombey and Son
$24.64
- Paperback
1040 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2002
Summary
Returns to the text of the first volume edition of 1848.
Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family, and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens’ novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business—calculatingly, callously, coldly, and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435468 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Andrew Sanders |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1040 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2002 |
| Weight: | 744g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 60mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“There’s no writing against such power as this-one has no chance.”-William Makepeace Thackeray
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About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.
Andrew Sanders is Professor of English at the University of Durham. He has edited several Dickens novels and is the author of Charles Dickens- Resurrectionist (1982) and The Short Oxford History of English Literature (2000).
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