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Dombey and Son (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Nancy Holder, Charles Dickens, Ian Perkin, A. Willis, Forster, John, Jason Lee is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dombey and Son (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) about?
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. Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune
Who reads Dombey and Son (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nancy Holder, Charles Dickens, Ian Perkin, A. Willis, Forster, John, Jason Lee
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Limited
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781853262579
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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