library binding
Published May 22, 2000 by Classic Books.
Charles Dickens: Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation (Hardcover, 2000, Classic Books)
library binding
Published May 22, 2000 by Classic Books.
Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a society dominated by commercial values and the drive for profit andexplores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love.