Dimensions
130 x 198 x 48mm
Dickens's searching critique of the masculine values of mid-Victorian culture.
London in the 1840s worships money at the expense of love. Mr Dombey, cold, proud, successful, pins all his hopes and affection on his little son, Paul, and cruelly neglects his loving daughter, Florence. Set against the bustling background of the Railway Boom - in which the teeming slums were destroyed at the expense of the old, familiar ways of life - the novel charts Dombey's progress, through tragedy, to enlightenment.
The loveable Mr Toots, the icily beautiful Edith and the outrageous Major Bagstock provide for the central confrontation between Mr Dombey and the slighted Florence. Cold masculinity is set against nurturing warmth, a closed mind against an open heart, as Dickens daringly explores the crippling rigidity of contemporary gender roles.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with original illustrations, introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Dicken's life and times.
