Pub Date: February 1, 1998
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 98175962
Lexile Code: 1090
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 1.70" H x 7.70" L x 5.00" W ( 1.40 lbs) 928 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Literary | Historical | General
Series: Penguin Classics
Description: Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.
Review Quotes: 'The great poet of the city. He was created by London'
--Peter Ackroyd
Adrian Poole writes in his introduction to this new edition, 'In its vast scope and perilous ambitions it has much in common with Bleak House and Little Dorrit, but its manner is more stealthy, on edge, enigmatic'.