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by Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction Social Critique Wealth and Privilege Family Dynamics Pride and Downfall Industrialization Social Class
Dombey and Son is a novel written by Charles Dickens and published in monthly installments between 1846 and 1848.
The book tells the story of Paul Dombey, a wealthy owner of a London shipping company who thinks the world was created to revolve around him and whose greatest dream is to have a son who inherits his company.
His dream is achieved and his son is born, but with the misfortune that his mother and wife of Dombey dies shortly after. In addition, the child is quite weak, sickly and with poor social skills.
It is a novel that gives way to the most creative part of Charles Dickens and where future stories and characters that would make it a classic of literature can already be glimpsed.
The book deals with issues of a social nature and finances. In addition, it reflects the cruelty of the time with children and the consequences that betrayal and deception bring. It also deals in less depth with the destruction and degradation of people and places caused by industrialization.
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Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens is believed to be in the public domain in the United States only. It may still be copyrighted in other countries. If you are not in the United States, please check your local laws to ensure this eBook is in the public domain in your country before downloading Dombey and Son in PDF or ePub.
WHY READ DOMBEY AND SON IN 2025?
177 years later, still timelyDickens studies money’s temperature at home and in the boardroom. Pride, tenderness, and the hunger to be seen cross in scenes that feel staged for both page and stage. It’s a novel about what business cannot buy—and how love outlives ledger lines.
Corporate culture, legacy, and care work are hot topics. This book humanizes balance sheets.
Family ledger
Affection vs. ambition.
Character gallery
Memorable arcs, earned turns.
Big set pieces
Victorian cinema on paper.
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Panoramic storytelling with comic energy and structural heart for the city and the outsider.
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In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is but our starting-place?
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!
If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don't you play no secret games, Keep your whistles going, and let's know where you are.
Oh mother, mother, if you had but left me to my natural heart when I too was a girl – a younger girl than Florence – how different I might have been!
It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.