Dombey and son ...

English language

Published Nov. 22, 1870 by Hurd and Houghton.

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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.

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Subjects

  • Fathers and daughters
  • Fiction
  • Family-owned business enterprises
  • Businesspeople
  • Dysfunctional families

Places

  • England