The Dickens Digest: Four Dickens Masterpieces - David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit (1943)

The Dickens Digest: Four Dickens Masterpieces

David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit

Condensed by: Mary Louise Aswell
Illustrated by: Donald McKay
Publisher: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill, NY
Edition: Dicken's Digest, 1st HC (1943)
Condition: VG, no DJ

Description: Editor Mary Louise Aswell trimmed four long Dickens novels—David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit—into one 543-page volume. Rather than rewriting the stories, she cut subplots to keep the main plots moving in Dickens's own words.