Dombey And Son
$56.30
- Hardcover
890 pages
- Release Date
15 October 1994
Summary
One of Dickens’s great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama and realism mingle with hallucinatory power, DOMBEY AND SON weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, and his children Paul and Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic and sinister, the novel also boasts a wonderful villain, in the person of Mr Carker, who tries to seduce Florence and meets his death u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857151671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857151674 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 890 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 1994 |
| Weight: | 882g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 135mm x 45mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors’ prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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