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David Copperfield
Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling
Written in the form of an autobiography
and intimately rooted in Dickens’s own
life, this is the evergreen story of a young
man growing to maturity in both affairs of
the world and affairs of the heart.
1,024 pp. 978-0-14-043944-1 $9.00
Dombey and Son
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Andrew Sanders
Paul Dombey is a proud, heartless London
merchant who runs his domestic affairs
like a business. Rich in plot, language, and
social commentary, this novel explores the
possibility of redemption through familial
love.
992 pp. 978-0-14-043546-7 $11.00
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Great Expectations
One of Dickens’s best-loved novels is now
available in a beautiful hardcover package.
544 pp. 978-0-14-104036-3 $20.00
Great Expectations
Edited with an Introduction by David
Trotter and Notes by Charlotte Mitchell
The orphan Pip’s encounter with an
escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and
his mysterious summons to the house of
Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful
ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great
expectations.” How Pip comes into a
fortune, what he does with it, and what he
discovers through his secret benefactor are
the ingredients of his struggle for moral
redemption.
560 pp. 978-0-14-143956-3 $8.00
Penguin Readers Guide Available
Charles diCkens
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on February 7, 1812, the second
of eight children. His father, a government clerk, was imprisoned for debt
and Dickens was sent to work at the age of twelve. He became a reporter of
parliamentary debates for the Morning Chronicle and began to publish sketches in
various periodicals. The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836–37 and became
a publishing phenomenon and Dickens’s characters the center of a popular cult.
He died on June 9, 1870. Dickens’s popularity during his lifetime was exceptional
but, as the distinguished literary critic Walter Allen said, his influence continues
to be felt and “his work has become part of the literary climate within which
Western man lives.”