Dimensions
130 x 198 x 52mm
Dickens set his final full-scale masterpiece in 1860s London, creating dozens of memorable individuals: disreputable waterside characters who search the Thames for dead bodies, fabulously wealthy dustmen, idle lawyers, shady financiers, a selfish student, a murderous teacher, a visionary dolls' dressmaker, a mercenary young beauty who is widowed before she is married, and a taxidermist and articulator of skeletons.
All the themes that most engaged the mature Dickens appear in the last novel he lived to complete: love and hate, wealth and poverty, honesty and duplicity, and the formation and reformation of identity. Exposing the selfishness, deception, greed and moral complacency pervading society, Dickens surveys the general panoramic view of life with biting wit; he also explores how our failures may be redeemed through love, friendship and an active and generous engagement with the world.
