Dombey And Son (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

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9781857151671: Dombey And Son (Everyman's Library Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1857151674 ISBN 13: 9781857151671

Publisher: Everyman, 1994

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This 1848 novel was elegantly written by Charles Dickens. He weaves the story of the lives of Paul Dombey, a wealthy owner of a shipping company, and his children set in England in the 1800's. The pages unfold the dramatic lives of each character as they live out their lives with various twists and turns across the lifetime of Mr. Paul Dombey, and ends with him at the end of his intricate life.

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"Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author's gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens's "genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he's planned to give, and then more." This Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1867 "Charles Dickens" edition.

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