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Dombey and Son, the classic by Charles Dickens. This book is from The Works of Charles Dickens, Cleartype Edition, and is Vol XIV of that set. It was published in the later 1800's. Wording on the copyright page states that the set incorporated revisions from 1868, so the actual publish date is within a few years of that date (but is not actually stated in the book). Red hardcover book with black spine lettering, 839 pages, published by Books, Inc.

Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds itself tragically divided. Stevenson’s remarkably vivid characterizations create an acutely moving, psychologically complex work; as Andrea Barrett points out in her Introduction, “The brothers’ characters, not the historical facts, shape the drama.”