Book Synopsis

It was upon a cold, grey December afternoon, when the little spring-bell above the door of Wickfield and Copperfield’s Law Offices gave its sharp announcement, that a stranger first entered. Mr. Wickfield and I were then seated at our facing desks, engaged in earnest discourse upon a case of some consequence; and, scarcely heeding the bell, we did not raise our eyes. The duty, as was customary, fell to our young clerk, who hastened forward to receive the visitor.

In this gothic continuation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, The Fall of Uriah Heep reimagines a world of ambition and hypocrisy, where the sins of the fathers return to claim the sons and where even the most “’umble” man may wield a terrible power.