· Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to ISBN The novel grabbed me from the beginning, unlike some Dickens novels that take a while to get going. (Bleak House's entire first half was such a tedious slog.) Dombey Son is a real page-turner; it also has second wife Edith, who Dickens scholars like to say is the /5(). Mr. Dombey is a stiff, dignified man who rarely shows emotion, but the birth of his infant son, who is named Paul, is cause for rejoicing. Mr. Dombey longed many years for a child who would become the Son of his mercantile firm of Dombey and Son/5().
'Dombey and Son,' interrupted Paul, who had been tutored early in the phrase. 'Dombey and Son,' repeated his father. 'Would you like to begin to be Dombey and Son, now, and lend this money to young Gay's Uncle?' 'Oh! if you please, Papa!' said Paul: 'and so would Florence.' 'Girls,' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son. Read an Excerpt. CHAPTER 1. DOMBEY AND SON. Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair 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 analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October and April with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but traveled extensively during the course.
Dombey and Son is a long novel dealing with Mr. Dombey an affluent merchant who has a family in crisis. Dombey's first wife dies giving birth to little Paul who dies early in chapter 16 in a moving and symbolic deathbed scene. His daughter Florence is shunned by her father but is loved by Walter Gay a sailor employed by her father's firm. Mr. Dombey is a stiff, dignified man who rarely shows emotion, but the birth of his infant son, who is named Paul, is cause for rejoicing. Mr. Dombey longed many years for a child who would become the Son of his mercantile firm of Dombey and Son. The novel grabbed me from the beginning, unlike some Dickens novels that take a while to get going. (Bleak House's entire first half was such a tedious slog.) Dombey Son is a real page-turner; it also has second wife Edith, who Dickens scholars like to say is the closest character to a feminist that he ever created.
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