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Search - Works: Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son: Vol I.

Works Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son Vol I
Author: Charles Dickens

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM DOMBEY AND SON . WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION - 13IBLIOGRAPI3ICAL NOTE Dealings with the Pirm of Dornheg and Son, TVholesa7e, Retad, and for Xxporlation., was rst published as a volclnle in 1848, after having been issued in twenty s7hilZing naonthZy parts honz October, 1846, to April, 1846. This Edition contailzs... more » all the emendations made in, the text as revised by the Author in 1867 and 1868, and rep oductions of the original iZlustrations by Phiz. THE STORY IS DEDICATED WITH QBEAT ESTEEM TO THE MARCHIONESS OF NORMANBY PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION I cauxo fo rego my usual opportunity of saying farewell to my renders in this greeting-place, though I have only to acltnowledge the unbounded warmth and carriestness of their sympathy in every stage of the journey we have just concluded. If any of them have felt a sorrow in one , of the principal incidents on which this fiction turns, I hope it may be a sorrow of that sort which endears the sharers in it, one to another. This is not unselfish in me. I may claim to have felt it, at least as much as anybody else and I would fain be remembered ltiiidly for my part in the experience. DEVONSHIR H E O USE M , arch 24,1848. PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I nram so bold as to believe that the faculty or the habit of correctly observing the characters of men, is a rare one. I have not even found, within my experience, that the faculty or the habit of correctly observing so much as the faces of men, is a general one by any means. The two comlnonest mistakes in judgment that I suppose to arise from the former default, are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance-a very common mistake indeed-and the not utiderstanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself. Mr. Dombey undergoes no violent change, either in this book, or in real life. A sense of his injustice is within him, all along. The more he represses it, the more unjust he necessarily is. Internal shame and external circumstnnces may bring the contest to n close in a week, or a day but, it has been a contest for years, and is only fought out after a long balance of victory. I began this book by the Lake of Geneva, and went on with it for sotlie months in France, before pursuing i t in England. The association between the writing and the place of writing is so curiously strong in my mind, that at this day, although I know, in my fancy, every stair in the little midshipmans house, and could swear to every pew in the - - church in which Florencc wTns married, or to every young gentlemans bedstead in Doctor Blimbers establishment, I x PREFACE TO CI3AItLES DICKENS EDITION yet confusedly imagine Captain Cuttle as secluding himself from Mrs. Macstinger among the mountains of S witzerlnnd. Similarly, when I nrn reminded by any chance of 1 11vhat it was that the waves were always saying, , my remembrance wanders for a whole winter night about the streets of Paris - as I restlessly did with a heavy heart, 011 the night when I had written the chapter in which my little friend and I parted company.

ISBN-13: 9781408621370
ISBN-10: 1408621371
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 586
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