- Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm.
- Dombey and Son (1848) is a lesser-known work by Charles Dickens. The novel tells the tale of a dysfunctional family led by a heartless businessman.
- Karl Smith, in his turn, gives his specific reasons for what makes Dombey and Son – and the works of Dickens as a whole – worth reading again and again.
- 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, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence.
- 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.
- Little Paul could have survived without partially losing his identity in the process of conditioning him as the heir of Dombey and Son.
- If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Dombey and Son.
- Dombey and Son was Dickens’s seventh novel. It was first published in installments that began in 1846 and ran through 1848.
- It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.' And again he said 'Dombey and Son, in exactly the same tone as before.