Dombey and Son
Author: Dickens, Charles
ISBN: 9780140435467
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Nov 2002
Pages: 1040
Format: Paperback / softback
Returns to the text of the first volume edition of 1848.
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.
ISBN: 9780140435467
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Nov 2002
Pages: 1040
Format: Paperback / softback
Returns to the text of the first volume edition of 1848.
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.
