- Fiction, Businesspeople, Family-owned business enterprises, Fathers and daughters
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.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 780
- Publisher
- Classic Books, Hazell, Viney & Watson, Hurst
- Editions
- 326
- Language
- Chinese, German, Dutch, French
- ISBN
- 9781590075821
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“Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were a”
Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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