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Dombey and son

Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Alan Horsman

(The world's classics)

Oxford University Press, 1982, c1966

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Note

Originally published: London : Bradbury and Evans, 1848

Bibliography: p. [756]

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'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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  • NCID
    BA01217941
  • ISBN
    • 0192815652
  • LCCN
    81016959
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiv, 755 p.
  • Size
    19 cm
  • Classification
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