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Hard Times
Edited with an Introduction by Kate Flint
With its vivid depiction of Coketown’s
tall chimneys and its evocations of the
dismal conditions of oppressed workers,
Hard Times is certainly an “industrial
novel.” While it conveys deep concern
for children, family, and home life, it
is a heartfelt satire as well, targeting
utilitarianism, self-help doctrines, and the
mechanization of the mid-Victorian soul.
384 pp. 978-0-14-143967-9 $9.00
Little Dorrit
Edited by Stephen Wall and Helen Small
In one of the supreme masterpieces of
his maturity, Dickens portrays a world of
hypocrisy and shame, of exploiters and
parasites, in a penetrating study of the
psychology of imprisonment.
1,024 pp. 978-0-14-143996-9 $12.00
Martin Chuzzlewit
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Patricia Ingham and Original Illustrations
by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”)
Moving from sunny farce to the grimmest
reaches of criminal psychology, this study
of selfishness and hypocrisy follows the
lives of two brothers with very different
fates.
864 pp. 978-0-14-043614-3 $12.00
38 b/w illustrations
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
David Paroissien
Unfinished at the time of Dickens’s
death, this novel explores the dark opium
underworld and the uneasy and violent
fantasies of its inhabitants.
432 pp. 978-0-14-043926-7 $10.00
Nicholas Nickleby
Edited with an Introduction by Mark Ford
Around the central story of Nicholas
Nickleby and the misfortunes of his
family, Dickens creates a gallery of
colorful characters: the muddle-headed
Mrs. Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical
Crummles, their protégée Miss Petowker,
the pretentious Mantalinis, and the
mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
864 pp. 978-0-14-043512-2 $9.00
39 b/w illustrations
The Old Curiosity Shop
Edited with an Introduction by
Norman Page
This novel contains some of Dickens’s
most bizarre characters, including the
lecherous dwarf Quilp, as well as his most
sentimental creation, the innocent Little
Nell, who is destroyed by an evil world.
352 pp. 978-0-14-043742-3 $13.00
Oliver Twist
Edited with an Introduction by
Philip Horne
This story of Oliver, a boy of unknown
parentage who escapes a workhouse and
embarks on a life of crime, shows how the
lack of compassion in privileged society
helps to make poverty a nursery of crime.
464 pp. 978-0-14-143974-7 $7.00
Our Mutual Friend
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Adrian Poole and Illustrations by
Marcus Stone
With a cast that embraces the
“accumulated scum of humanity,” this
novel, the last Dickens completed before
his death, probes into the crimes and
guilt of dead fathers and its impact on a
generation of sons and daughters.
928 pp. 978-0-14-043497-2 $12.00
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