The Works of Charles Dickens (Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby).

DICKENS, Charles.

Item Number: 3582

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [c. 1880s]..

The Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Octavo, 30 volumes. Frontispiece and full-page illustrations in each volume. Half green morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt with red floral inlays, top edges gilt. A very attractive complete Dickens set.

Dickens is generally considered the greatest writer of the Victorian period. His works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. "His imaginative freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness and pity, his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit, his superabundance of creative energy, have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 184).