Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son

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Charles Dickens: Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son (1848, John Wiley, 161 Broadway, of the late firm of Wiley and Putnam)

Published Nov. 22, 1848 by John Wiley, 161 Broadway, of the late firm of Wiley and Putnam.

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4986934

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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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