Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)

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.

• • Author: Charles Dickens
• • Publisher: Penguin Classics
• • Publication Date: November 26, 2002
• • Number of Pages: 1004 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 0140435468
• • ISBN-13: 9780140435467